At 03:04 PM 11/14/98 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >Or stay right here -- maybe you >could help me out with the Installation Manual? It needs so much >work, I'm getting gray hairs just thinking about it.
I would be honored to help if I can. At the very least I can research specific topics and write sections for review. Please point the way. Let me relate some of my own experience and, perhaps, you can see what I should document first. I went most amuck in my own progress when I got to the end of the Install doc, finished the install, and said "so what next". A few links to the next docs would have been helpful. My biggest problem was that I couldn't find the documents that are out there. I kept asking myself why there wasn't a README-1ST document in the cd-rom top directory, that explained how to get at the documentation. Fortunately, I knew about 'cat'. I found 'more' and eventually found 'less'. Other than having to reboot a few times when my screen became totally garbled, I started to find my way around. My biggest breakthrough came when I joined the debian-users and debian-doc listserv and was able to ask a few questions. Then I reinstalled one time too many and ended up with root not needing a password. I fixed that last night and am off to setup ppp. I am trying to build a chat script but that is painful going for many reasons. Also, I am coming from Win95 and could not find any tool that let me mount the Debian install cd-roms and look into the tar.gz documents from inside Explorer. I think a document targeted to those making the Win95 to GNU/Linux transition would have been helpful. Especially one that explains how to find the documentation that exists. I am still looking for that one HTML document, on the Install cd-rom, that opens the entire documentation set to my Win95 Netscape browser. I am hopelessly addicted to several Win95 products so I have a long ways to go. I somehow believe that merely chronicling my transition from Win95 to GNU/Linux might be helpful. The journey from the end of the Install doc to full productivity is arduous. I have a thousand questions and about three answers so I AM making progress. >BTW, do you speak any non-English languages? No. I took French and Russian in high school but have not used them for decades. Speaking of languages brings up a quandary for me. I can use the Win95 tools pretty well but I simply don't want to invest another minute in learning how to do SGML under Win95. Is it possible that I can publish HTML documents for people to review and worry about getting them to SGML once I have finished the transition to GNU/Linux. I suspect many potential volunteers are in the same predicament as I am. Thank you for your feedback and I look forward to finding ways to be helpful. -- Copyright(c) 1998 Lyno Sullivan; this work is free and may be copied, modified and distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html> and it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
