On 05-Apr-00 David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> by Jukka Simila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING
>> I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0,
>> so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some common sense, I think? I
>> read the UPDATING and followed those very simple instructions there
>> (well I have to admit I couldn't build a custom kernel before I had
>> updated the system with GENERIC, but that really isn't a big
>> problem)
>
> Where in UPDATING did you find the update instructions? I did the same
> as you, except when I came to read UPDATING, it looked like a
> changelog, so i stopped reading after a 5 pages or so - little did I
> know at the time that the critical instructions were at the end of the
> file. Shortly after, those paragraphs were moved to the top of
> UPDATING, which is a vast improvement, and greatly improves the
> chances of basically clueful people finding the instructions. It's
> this level of improvement that the docs need most - moving/putting
> pointers to pre-existing text to places where the basically clueful
> will look.
apparently i was lucky:
info was at the top of the file, so the file had already been updated that way
before i got it.
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Jukka Simila
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