From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 23:30:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0872F16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sarajevo.pacific.net.sg (sarajevo.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB7EE43D3F for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 28795 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2004 06:30:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by sarajevo with SMTP; 20 Apr 2004 06:30:19 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.202.28]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20040420063019.BJRE1186.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:30:19 +0800 Message-ID: <4084C2E6.70602@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:27:50 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040409 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf References: <200404200142.21458.goreBOFH@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200404200142.21458.goreBOFH@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Would this be useful? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:30:36 -0000 Hi, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > Hi list, this is my first message here, but I'll get to the point; > I really like writing documentation for the installation of OSs sometimes, and > I think a lot of newbies to *NIX find Free BSD hard to install, the same > people think that way about Slackware Linux too, and I did write a nice > tutorial on Slackware that was step by step, and even told you how many times > to push which button to install it. > > I'v been thinking about writing one for Free BSD that would go through an > install step by step, and make it as easy as the other I did. Would this > maybe help people or be a waste of time? This would be very helpfull for the acceptance of FreeBSD for 'normal' users. Dispite using Unix and other operating systems since the late Seventies, I feel once in a while lost because I do not understand the documentation. A documentation you suggest would make it much easier for the user to overcome at least the problem even if he does not understand why he was able to overcome it. Erich