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Subject: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
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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