From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 3 05:51:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA11756 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 05:51:18 -0800 Received: from rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA11750 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 05:51:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rwwa.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA26703 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:51:12 -0500 Message-Id: <199502031351.IAA26703@rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.1 12/2/94 To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: POS In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Feb 1995 14:32:40 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 08:51:12 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I certainly agree with you on the installation and documentation. There > are many professional programmers out here who find the installation > procedures incomprehensible, particularily the partitioning and disklabel > parts. Wile it isn't a panacea, a glance at the FM (the 4.4 doc set SMM in particular) which can be---gasp---bought at a bookstore, will go a long way toward explaining things like installation. That and the FreeBSD supplied docs give you a fairly complete albeit rather disorganized view of things. The major lacking is on some of the device drivers that are neither documented in the doc set nor in the online man pages (sound for instance). Honestly, the 4.4 doc set (about 7 inches of manuals) should be perused before complaining about lack of documentation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA