user-opinion poll?! [was: Would this be useful?]

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

platanthera wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:35, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0400, 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.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>Did you really read
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html ?
> 
> 
> it would be really hard to create a better installation guide .-)
> 
It depends on the angle of view.

Imagine you are a Windows user and want to try FreeBSD. All you get is
that handbook. It just looks greek to them.

This is the point where their route to FreeBSD ends.

Erich