From: Michael Lang <mwlang@cybrains.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:34:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020315013412.0207d7e8@mail.cybrains.net> (raw)
Here are the new install instructions. Not knowing the "proper" way to put
this out for review, I have put it up at the following URL (my pardons if
this breaks any protocols):
http://www.gibberishcode.net/gentoo-web/xsl/build.html
What to expect:
The first half has been completely overhauled to allow more than one method
of documentation to be written. I tried to take scattered notes about the
system requirements and misc notes and collect them into an overview so
that we weren't losing valuable info in cluttered notes and "oh, by the
way" sort of remarks.
I felt that it was starting to get confusing talking about both fast-binary
and from scratch installation methods in one sweep and it would've gotten
really confusing with interlacing the third method, which I have written
here for installing from existing distro.
This reorganization leads to _some_ duplication of material which you will
see at the modprobe area, but I figured this was better than mingling the
different install processes (and thus overly confusing the reader).
I didn't incorporate the altinstall doc which has installation over network
instructions, but this can probably be easily incorporated if desired.
Most of the changes take place before the Setting up Partitions
chapter. Notes were inserted as appropriate after this point.
A section for Lilo was added as I figured this is a common occurrence for
those converting over from existing distro. In any event, I have no
experience with Grub, so I can't comment on how to convert a Lilo system to
grub.
Please keep in mind that I am a Linux newbie, so if I said something that
made absolutely no sense or is completely wrong, then please definitely let
me know without totally trashing me. I made a lot of assumptions and
"interpretation" of what Linux is doing on the system level based on my
experience with Windoze.
There is a completely commented out section (search for BAH). If you can
offer some insights here, that would be great.
Regards,
Michael Lang
President
www.cybrains.net
"All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert Einstein
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 6:34 Michael Lang [this message]
2002-03-15 7:39 ` [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15 19:19 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
2002-03-20 17:48 ` George Shapovalov
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