On 09/20/2024 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 07:53:28 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide"
available as a single file.
I need it available when the network is not.
It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing when
installing from DVD1 were available.
Have you tried googling:
debian stable installation guide pdf amd64
which should lead you to:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.en.pdf
No ;}
For two primary reasons:
1. due to vision/perception problems I avoid PDF in favor of HTML.
SeaMonkey simplifies consistent font size across documents.
2. My work style uses tabs to group (and save across restarts)
related references conveniently.
Secondarily, for those preferring PDF, in my use of SeaMonkey since
days of Squeeze I never noticed mention of its documentation being
available as PDF.
The PDF is ~650kB, but for ~17MB you can get all three formats
(PDF/text/HTML) as one file (in the sense it seems you mean) in
the Debian package installation-guide-amd64.
As you didn't give a URL, I went to
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22Debian%22%20%22package%22%20%22installation-guide-amd64%22
That did not link to "all three formats (PDF/text/HTML) as one file"
available to one who does not have Debian already installed.
1st hit of "Details of package installation-guide-amd64 in bullseye"
prompted travel in right direction.
I've been using Debian since Squeeze. I have never been pointed to
[ /usr/share/doc ] nor [ /usr/share/doc-base ]. The latter contains the
"Installation Guide" as uncompressed HTML filed. PDF&text versions are
there in compressed format.
Using tabs isn't affected by whether the HTML code itself is in
a "single" file or a tree.
My mention of tabs was to point out why PDF was not useful.
Because I'm doing a "from scratch" install for the first time in
several years, I said:
It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing when installing
from DVD1 were available.
Sorry, I would have thought you could recite them from memory by now :)
Tell me that with a straight face when you pass 80 ;)!
[I haven't seen that set of screens in at least 5 years.]
I recall most of what has to be accomplished but am hazy on some
details. So I went looking at https://www.debian.org/ from a "newbie"
point of view. ~Nada:{
Drilling down leads to https://www.debian.org/do_c/ which first points
FTR remove the "_".
our possibly non-geek newbie to "Installation Guide" and "Debian
GNU/Linux FAQ" which, though brimming with facts, are inconveniently
organized.
Oh dear, I thought that was how the Installation Guide had been
organised since the days of yore.
YES! It has bugged me forever ;{
*HOWEVER* there is something _NEW_ on the page!
Who, me, excited ;}
There is now something called _The Debian Bookworm beginner’s
handbook_ [
https://debian-beginners-handbook.tuxfamily.org/index-en.html ].
For reasons stated above I'll be using the HTML more than the PDF.
This resource should be linked to on https://www.debian.org/ or at
most down only one level.
I don't think it makes sense to promote this above the two you've
already mentioned.
It should at least be in the same "Quick Start" paragraph.
I addresses some of my questions, though it only mentions others.
I'll be doing a lot of reading this weekend.
If you like it. I prefer the detail of the other two, and it now
sounds as if you might.
They suffer from too much detail.
One question. There are two HTML versions. What's difference between
the_beginners_handbook.html and the_beginners_handbook_night.html ?
It should be as clear as night and day from the very start of each,
but:
$ diff -U0 the*/the* > diff (attached)
*ROFL*
Due to my vision problems, one of the first things done to SeaMonkey was
choosing "Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image
specified" option of Preferences->Appearance->Colors :}!
Cheers,
David.
