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From: Steve Ackerman <steve@nitech.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:23:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C98C5AD.5080005@nitech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5.1.0.14.2.20020416133723.00b25248@mail.cybrains.net

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
>
> President
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>
> "All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert 
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Steve Ackerman





  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-20 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15 19:19 [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions Nathan Nutter
2002-04-16 17:51 ` Michael Lang
2002-03-16 18:04   ` Avi Schwartz
2002-03-16 20:34     ` Daniel Robbins
2002-03-20 17:23   ` Steve Ackerman [this message]
2002-03-20 17:48     ` George Shapovalov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15  6:34 Michael Lang
2002-03-15  7:39 ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-15 16:10   ` Michael Lang
2002-03-15 16:58     ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-15 15:56 ` Dan Armak
2002-03-15 17:11 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-03-15 20:35   ` Michael Lang
2002-03-15 22:14     ` Daniel Robbins

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