Dale wrote:
Joshua D Doll wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
I completely agree. I like the control also.
I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new
user' could read, follow it and understand what it's telling him/her
to do and then do it and come out with a working machine. I think it's
true if the new user builds exactly the 3 partition example shown in
the docs and does *only* the very basic install on a machine that
doesn't have Windows, etc. However I think that the docs (not the
software!) could be improved to handle things like dual-boot, either
another distro or windows, etc. which personally I think 'new users'
come up against. Issues about stuff like where to put the MBR, why and
why not to do that sort of thing, requires (or is vastly enhanced) if
that new user has some knowledge about hard drives, booting, etc.
- Mark
I 100% agree that the docs can and should cover more. Maybe a
flowchart would be useful?
--Joshua Doll
I wish the man pages had more examples. Give me a real world example
and I can wrap my poor brain around what it should look like when I do
something.
Dale
:-) :-)
Man pages are notoriously bad. The gentoo handbook and other official
docs are great OTOH.
--Joshua Doll
