Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:19:28 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "How to install 2.0.5R" tutorial wanted. Message-ID: <m0sMKRs-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199506151225.NAA00329@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 15, 95 01:25:32 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ... there are also some new concepts being introduced here and it's > already been noted that the 2.0.5R installation isn't entirely > fault-tolerant when it comes to users coloring outside the lines. OH! We are supposed to color *inside* the lines? ;-) > Therefore, I thought it might be nice if someone could write down > the steps involved in a "typical installation", one chapter each > for tape, ftp, NFS and floppy (the CDROM install I don't expect anyone > to document yet, given that the CDs aren't back from duplication! :). Having done a dos partition install about a 100 times lately (does that qualify me for a cd? :-) I will have a go at that one, as soon as I can fetch all the stuff again... it seems to have changed again since my last massive download. I will even write about how to recover from getting your MBR stepped on. :-) > Yes, I've already written an "installation guide", but I think that I'm > too close to the problem and there are aspects of the installation that > I probably took far too much for granted when I wrote the doc. Something > written from the user's point of view would be FAR superior to my own > stuff, and would save new installers a lot of trouble. please mail me a copy of what you have anyway, in case I am forgetting something, etc... -- Jan Isley | If you couldn't find any weirdness, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us | maybe we'll just have to make some! - Hobbes
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