Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:00:23 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Per-release installation instructions? Message-ID: <20020611210023.A39690@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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--Ix2jQZQ3wXOip0b1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I wonder if it's worth pulling the installation instructions (i.e., chapter 2 of the Handbook) out in to its own document, and branching it. I was discussing the FreeBSD install with a colleague today who's trying FreeBSD 4.5 for the first time. He was convinced that when he'd installed 4.5, it had installed XFree86 4.mumble as well. I said no, it would be XFree86 3.mumble. Turns out that he'd looked at the online release notes for 4.5, which have a link to chapter 2 for installation. And buried in the online Handbook is a note that the XFree version that's installed is version 4. Except that we only started doing that after 4.5 was released. If he'd looked in the version of the Handbook that was in /usr/doc he'd have seen the right information. . . =2E . . except that he was doing this research *before* he'd installed FreeBSD. So there's a chicken and egg situation. Hence the question in my first paragraph. Thoughts? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --Ix2jQZQ3wXOip0b1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9BlbQk6gHZCw343URAsyZAJ9JFomVM90E5nj7RGXlnxmcqTN2YQCfeMJ8 8ZbISAB06WbUag4Nbq4wTb0= =i3x/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Ix2jQZQ3wXOip0b1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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