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From: Ted Kosan <tkosan@...>
Subject: Re: DRobbins 2007.0 review
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:04:56 -0700 (PDT)

 1.1

Duncan wrote:

> In trying to reply to the issues as I did, well, let's just say I'd have 
> been confused trying to read the present install documentation as a 
> Gentoo newbie (it was confusing enough as it was, knowing what was in the 
> old handbook and trying to see if it was in the current one, then finding 
> there was a 2007.0 one as well). <snip>

A few months ago I posted an alternative solution to the Gentoo newbie
confusion problem.  I have put together the following Gentoo installation
materials which are specifically designed to guide newbies through the Gentoo
installation process in a thorough and unambiguous way:

http://206.21.94.60/tkosan/distancelearning/etec150/lectures/

I recently tested these materials with a group of 25 high school students in a
distance learning course and all but one was able to successfully install
Gentoo.  I have also had a 13 year old use the materials to install Gentoo with
very few problems.

I think that the current documentation that Nightmorph has put together is well
suited to more experienced users.  For example, I like the different paths that
the documentation present at various points because it allows me to see
alternatives that I often did not know existed.

Instead of replacing the handbook, or radically altering it, my intent with the
newbie materials is to have a newbie use them to successfully install Gentoo
and then they should blow their installation away and do a reinstall from
scratch using the normal Handbook.

Ted

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