Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Well, both types of documentation are needed. The official formal documentation, which, of necessity , needs to be written in a rather formal language style and

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread Randy Pratt
Keramidas; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. [snip] The FreeBSD Install Guide is mirrored at the following sites

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
As stated in the content displayed by those URL's the Install guide is free to anyone to download and very plainly states the content is contributed to public domain. So why are so many people asking the same question when the answer is so self evident? And this writer takes offence to

RE: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread Texas Consultant
Freebsd Install Guide Available To: Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As stated in the content displayed by those URL's the Install guide is free to anyone to download and very plainly states

RE: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I think this is great, but there should be a project leader to regulate overall structure of the Handbook and other documents as that is perhaps where the greatest amount of work is needed. Could we at least have a mailing list for writers? Ask and you shall receive: [EMAIL

RE: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Well, both types of documentation are needed. The official formal documentation, which, of necessity , needs to be written in a rather formal language style and other explanitory

New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread bob
YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. The majority of the content is written like the reader already has good understanding of how FreeBSD works. It is not detailed enough for someone who has no previous experience with Unix like operating systems. The referenced Install

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread Christopher Nehren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled these curious markings: YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. The majority of the content is written like the reader already has good understanding of how FreeBSD works. It is not

RE: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread bob
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled these curious markings: YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. The majority of the content is written like

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. [snip] The FreeBSD Install Guide is mirrored at the following sites. http://freebsd.easyasthat.co.uk/ http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php

RE: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-03 Thread bob
Keramidas; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. [snip] The FreeBSD Install Guide is mirrored at the following sites. http