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From: Michael Lang <mwlang@cybrains.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:51:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020416133723.00b25248@mail.cybrains.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEKGDNMKJIHIKBAA@mailcity.com>

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
www.cybrains.net

"All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert Einstein



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 18:03 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 [this message]
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
  -- 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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