On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:03:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:57:09AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > wouldn't consider a *N*X are doing so. And they're not prepared. > > > > > > > > so in other words... its a good thing! > > > > > > > > > > Yes. It tells us that our documentation isn't up to their needs. > > > > > > Doug. > > Well, I'd say that the value of 'their' has progressively been changing > > to be an ever more less expeirenced group of users. > > Well, I've been using Linux for five years -- at least -- I've lost > count -- with various distros (starting frome when slackware was just > starting to be installed from CDROM instead of floppies), have settled > on Debian, and are tempted by Gentoo. I don't find the documentation up > to *my* needs. Or else maybe I stil don't know where to find it. > > For example, where do you find details on why rescue mode, swapped hard > drives (/dev/hda <-> /dev/hdc) when I asked it to start a shell in the > context of my root partition but not when I asked it to start a shell in > the installer context? In fact running fdisk /dev/hda in the root > context showed me a perfect partition table for /dev/hdc, except that > all the partitions were labelled as being on /dev/hda. > > Now I know the boot-loaders have provisions for swapping hard-drive > letters. But why were they invoked? > > This is the kind of detail that needs to be documented. And access to > wource code is no longer a solution, even for experienced programmers -- > there's just too much undocumented context for each piece of the > hundred-million-odd lines of code that constitute Debian that that's > only practical for specialists in the particular subsystem under > investigation. > > I've considered switching to Gentoo, because some of their advocates say > their distribution is strong on documentation, but I suspect that they > mey not be a lot better.
Do you need to know the _why_ of that, or would you have liked a heads-up and what to do about it? The _why_ may be a complicated technical answer usable only to those working on coding the installer (or the kernel). The what-to-do-about-it should be simple for someone who has dealt with it to explain. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
