Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:47:08 -0500 From: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org> To: Mikel King <mikel@ocsinternet.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web page suggestion Message-ID: <20010214114708.B72204@psychotic.aberrant.org> In-Reply-To: <3A8AB27B.A664CD14@ocsinternet.com>; from mikel@ocsinternet.com on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:29:47AM -0500 References: <20010213104922.A70178@psychotic.aberrant.org> <20010214081413.A331@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010214092858.A71708@psychotic.aberrant.org> <3A8AB27B.A664CD14@ocsinternet.com>
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I had been thinking about that as well. It's easy to get carried away here, but what about a self-extracting windows executable in addition to the tarball? Now that [pk|win]zip can read tarballs, it may not be an issue, though... but isn't there a way to launch a text viewer from a self-extractor? If so, we could have the README/docs/whatever come up when the files have been extracted. Shrug. I think it might be best to table this until we get the fundamental stuff out of the way, but I would like to revisit at some point. It might go a long way towards simplifying the process of obtaining the necessary FreeBSD resources. Seth. On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:29:47AM -0500, Mikel King wrote: > Seth, > > In the interest of making things easier why not create a simple tarball with the kern.flp & > mfsroot.flp, fidimage.exe and a it's docs, as well as the fBSD how to and stuff like that for the > current version. Call it an express intall kit if you like. Well it's just a thought and really > wouldn't take much to throw that into the mix as well. > > Cheers, > mikel > > > Seth wrote: > > > I think it's great. One thing I'd add in the "Current release" box > > is a link to a page I drafted & set to Jordan yesterday. Under > > "Announcement/Release Notes/Errata", how about a "Download Now" href? > > > > I've attached my original draft; there's some redundancy in there since > > I had the current version w/ announcement, etc. on the secondary page. > > Maybe it makes sense to repeat it; if not, trash the top part. > > > > Again, please forgive the HTML -- I'm not a web designer. > > > > Seth. > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:14:13AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Seth wrote: > > > > I'm not suggesting that the information isn't there already -- it is. > > > > But the release information is completely separate from the downloads, > > > > and it makes sense to me to have all that relevant information in > > > > one place, highlighted for quick navigation. > > > > > > Attached are two files that implement a first, quick, cut at this. > > > > > > The first is a patch to www/en/index.sgml. Apply this and test if you > > > have a local copy of the www repository. > > > > > > The second is the index.html that this generates, for those that don't > > > have a repo to hand, and just want to see what it looks like (keep in > > > mind that you won't get any of the images). > > > > > > Comments? > > > > > > N > > > -- > > > Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. > > > Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, > > > hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. > > > Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. > > > -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery > > > > > Index: index.sgml > > > =================================================================== > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/index.sgml,v > > > retrieving revision 1.102 > > > diff -u -r1.102 index.sgml > > > --- index.sgml 2001/01/25 22:20:23 1.102 > > > +++ index.sgml 2001/02/14 08:11:30 > > > @@ -128,8 +128,26 @@ > > > <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> </td> > > > > > > <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="500"> > > > + <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" align="right" bgcolor="#000000"> > > > + <tr> > > > + <td> > > > + <table width="100%" cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0 bgcolor="#ffcc66"> > > > + <tr> > > > + <td align="center"><b>Current Release: 4.2</b><br> > > > + <small><a > > > + href="&base;/releases/4.2R/announce.html">Announcement</a> > > > + · <a > > > + href="&base;/handbook/install.html">Installation > > > + Guide</a> · <a > > > + href="&base;/releases/4.2R/errata.html">Errata</a></small></td> > > > + </tr> > > > + </table> > > > + </td> > > > + </tr> > > > + </table> > > > + > > > <h2><font color="#990000">What is FreeBSD?</font></h2> > > > - > > > + > > > <p>FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the > > > Intel compatible (x86), DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. > > > It is developed and maintained by <a > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > newguide.htmlName: newguide.html > > Type: Hypertext Markup Language (text/html) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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