On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:53:31AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > I'll look into the quickinstall a bit more and see what I can do to > help, as one of the main complaints we got at Linux World was about the > install process. It ranged from "When are we going to see a graphical > installer?" to "The installation documents are simply way too long to > bother reading."
Yeah, that's a double-edged situation. Some people prefer no-nonsense, quick
'n dirty information on what to do (12 lines is sufficient for me to remember
what to do to install a Gentoo system), others really need that extra
paragraph explaining what that little command really does.
From documentation project PoV, having an extensive document explaining every
step of the installation process is the primary concern. It is a lot easier
for advanced users to diagonally read the installation instructions than to
have users deal with unknown situations through google :)
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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(oo) Sven Vermeulen
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