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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>
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Subject: Re: Pre-alpha versions of some documentation
To: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au (Gary Roberts)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:50:59 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: doc@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9504271611.AA24161@wcs.uq.edu.au> from "Gary Roberts" at Apr 28, 95 02:11:34 am
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> Firstly, we'll assume that you have tried the obvious steps like reading FAQs,
> INSTALL_NOTES, READMEs, or whatever documentation is available.  We will help
> anyway but the simple step of reading all the documentation can save lots of
> work for everyone.  We realise that sometimes documentation is either not
> available, out of date or too cryptic to be useful to many people.
> Hopefully we can help in these cases.

You might also add that if they did not find the documentation useful
to let us know, and to also tell us how we could make it better.
  
> mentor
>...
> +--------------------------------+------------------+-----------------------+
> |HDD: Maxtor 270 MB IDE,  Western Digital 540 MB IDE                        |
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>...

You should also add a field for the user to enter the type/brand of
disk controller they are using.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"