When I started poking around the docs site, that's exactly what I was looking for. I was surprised to not see it anywhere.
With OpenSolaris, you have something that's, at this point, not a simple pop-in-the-cd-and-install, so anyone using it has actually had to read a doc or two; there's also the long history of being Solaris, a stable, secure server system rather than a one-stop-shop that Linux tries to be. These two will probably produce a higher standard of users (I can't come up with the wording that I want for this--not to say that Linux users are bad, but it will be a while before Joe Randombody downloads and installs. I need to stop responding to emails when I wake up at 4am :/) Thus, user-created documents will tend to be more technically accurate, more thorough, more useful. Ross On Jun 20, 2005, at 12:42 AM, David Lindt wrote: > Ross, > > Thanks for joining the docs-discuss alias and for taking your time to > put your install steps into a doc. > > Your doc makes me realize that I don't see an obvious place on the > opensolaris.org site where we can can post docs contributed by the > open source community. A lot of our discussions have been focused on > man pages and people wanting to add additional content to some of the > manuals of interest to developers working with OpenSolaris. > > It could be good to have a Documentation link from opensolaris.org > where we could host docs like the one you've created. This is just an > idea, but I'd like to see what other people think about this. > > David > > Ross Nelson wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> After pasting the url to #opensolaris, jteo suggested that I join the >> Documentation community and share my document. Aside from the part >> about getting my embedded 3com nic working, it's a simple, generic >> guide to installing Sun Studio 10 + OpenSolaris once b16 has been >> installed. It was mostly written for me in case I need to do a clean >> reinstall anytime soon, but it may be useful to others. >> >> http://rnelson.org/docs/solaris/install_opensolaris.html >> >> Basically, it's the download page, the Sun Studio page, the release >> notes, and the developer documentation (and a bit of #opensolaris >> magic) all in one small document. Of particular use is the few lines >> on filelist.ramdisk, which I'm told Rich Teer had problems with. I >> didn't see this in the Developer's Reference (though, I haven't tried >> to look for it beyond the section on installing the kernel). >> >> Like I implied, I don't know that it'll be useful to anyone else out >> there, but I thought I'd share anyway. >> >> Ross Nelson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> docs-discuss mailing list >> docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > -- > David Lindt > Technical Publications and Information Design Manager > Solaris Developer/Compilers and Tools/NetBeans Technical Communications > Phone: 650 786-4027 or x84027 > >
