Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions

[George Shapovalov]

Ok, this is it :-).
I have been following the discussion of these new install instructions and my 
feeling is that it is about the right place now.  Adding many small 
specialized topics will make it large and hard for 1st read and step-trough 
installation.
However there definitely are people interested in that or another special 
topic, and it would be unfare to just draw the line and not accept anything 
new. 
So what about having one "basic" install guide and provide a link to a 
"special topic collection"? For which experts on certain topics willing to 
see the topic covered will write up a short paraghraph or two and send it to 
maintainer so it gets included? This is of course if maintainer accept new 
responsibility. He is doing a great job (and demanding one) already!
Just my 2 cents on this :-)

George

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 09:23, you wrote:
> How about adding a small section for installation of a software RAID
> system. It would be nice to show a brief overview of how to get this
> working...
>
> Michael Lang wrote:
> > At 01:19 PM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >> 1. In either the "/etc/localtime" or the "/etc/rc.conf" section add a
> >> note about setting "localtime" or "UTC", I thought that most people
> >> use localtime, so maybe it should be default in /etc/rc.conf(which is
> >> unrelated to this of course).
> >
> > What's the verdict on this one?  I think I put localtime, thinking UTC
> > might mess up my dual booting back to Windoze, but not sure.
> >
> >> 2. In the "Final Configuration" section you didn't mention lilo in
> >> summary since you added it; also, in the "lilo" section it almost
> >> seems like that is the next step, maybe show that you can do lilo or
> >> grub, user following down the list might not realise or may do both.
> >
> > Good points here.  Turned this into a Bootloader chapter with overview.
> >
> >> 3. Link or more info on USE flags would be awesome.
> >
> > I'm not really qualified to write about the USE flags.  Anybody want
> > to provide me with a paragraph or two?  Or if there's a url somewhere
> > covering this, please point me there.
> >
> >> 4. In the "Setting up partitions" section, note about ext2/3 being
> >> resizeable, xfs growth but not shrink, etc. would be helpful.  I
> >> realize you have a link to in-depth discusion about filesystems, but
> >> I don't think this was discussed in those articles either.  Also a
> >> not about parted and/or fips and other tools to modify partitions.
> >
> > Again, I'm not really qualified to write this up.  If there's any
> > volunteers or someone can point me to some good docs, I'll be glad to
> > add info to docs...however, I'm not sure we want to put *every* sort
> > of detail into the install docs as this tends to clutter it a good bit.
> >
> > I tried to clean up a lot of this clutter..while I have definitely
> > trimmed a lot of fluff out, I don't think I've deleted any actual
> > information, yet.  A lot of things got pushed to the top into the
> > Overview chapter and then where ever I spotted the info being
> > rehashed, I zapped it.
> >
> > One thing I'm curious about is the Important Note about being at
> > FOSDEM...is this a note affecting the vast majority of installers
> > (i.e. something that should definitely be left in), or is this a
> > highly targeted notes to Gentoo developers or from earlier Gentoo days?
> >
> >> 5. Booting section, maybe make link to 3 separate pages, rather than
> >> all in one, same with lilo and grub install section.
> >
> > I thought about doing this as well, but figured people might want to
> > be printing the guide out because they are potentially going to be
> > offline for a while while bringing new system on-line.  Any others
> > with feedback?
> >
> > I have been re-drafting as ideas come in.  Please check out latest
> > revisions at:
> >
> > http://www.gibberishcode.net/gentoo-web/xsl/build.html
> >
> > Michael
> >
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> > Einstein
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