From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 13:13:24 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 3869F16A4CF for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB80843D2D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3KKDGui033518; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:13:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id i3KKDD6m033517; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:13:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:13:13 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Erich Dollansky Message-ID: <20040420201313.GD21143@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200404200142.21458.goreBOFH@comcast.net> <4084C2E6.70602@pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4084C2E6.70602@pacific.net.sg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE 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 20:13:24 -0000 On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:27:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > 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. > Could you give more details about what you do not understand in the doc? > 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. > I don't really understand what you mean. Marc