Would this be useful?

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 20 20:13:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:27:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:
> >Hi list, this is my first message here, but I'll get to the point;
> >I really like writing documentation for the installation of OSs sometimes, 
> >and I think a lot of newbies to *NIX find  Free BSD hard to install, the 
> >same people think that way about Slackware Linux too, and I did write a 
> >nice tutorial on Slackware that was step by step, and even told you how 
> >many times to push which button to install it. 
> >
> >I'v been thinking about writing one for Free BSD that would go through an 
> >install step by step, and make it as easy as the other I did. Would this 
> >maybe help people or be a waste of time?
> 
> This would be very helpfull for the acceptance of FreeBSD for 'normal' 
> users.
> 
> Dispite using Unix and other operating systems since the late Seventies, 
> I feel once in a while lost because I do not understand the documentation.
>

Could you give more details about what you do not understand in the doc?

> A documentation you suggest would make it much easier for the user to 
> overcome at least the problem even if he does not understand why he was 
> able to overcome it.
> 

I don't really understand what you mean.

Marc



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