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Overall, good instructions. A couple of comments: |
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1. In section 14, you might also want to list redhat-sources, since quite |
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a few people have good experiences with all the work RedHat puts into |
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their kernel tree. It's one of the more stable "branches" around. |
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2. Same section, a bit further down. When mentioning which kernel options |
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to enable, be much more specific and detailed. E.g. the doc mentions |
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"Device File System". There is no such option, it's really called "/dev |
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file system support". This will be very confusing for newbies. I suggest |
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you go as far as listing the necessary options this way: |
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"File systems --->" |
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"/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
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I.e. cut'n'paste from the 'make menuconfig' output, with the complete menu |
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path to where the option is, for every option needed. |
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3. A large portion of people have cd burner today, so might as well write |
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a small paragraph on how they can get that working. Was pondering a |
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separate document, but since it's a kernel compile to enable it, it might |
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as well go in from the start. I.e. |
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"ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support --->" |
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"IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices --->" |
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"SCSI emulation support" |
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, |
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"SCSI support --->" |
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"SCSI generic support" |
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and a few of the CDROM filesystem types (can't remember off hand which of |
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them are default enabled). |
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Then tell them about the hd[abcd]=ide-scsi argument to the kernel that |
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should go in the menu.lst file. |
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4. This is more an install change suggestion than an install documentation |
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change. Both the fstab editing and the menu.lst editing can easily be |
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scriptet, since you have all the needed information at this point (all the |
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relevant filesystems are mounted). On one hand it helps the newbies learn |
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a bit about fstab and grub when they're forced to do it manualle, but on |
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the other hand it quickly gets old for people who have done it before. :-) |
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OK |