Re: Newbie Guide (DRAFT)

[Brian <bwaichu@yahoo.com>]

--- Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> Some useful information there. It would be good to
> point out 'man 
> afterboot' explicitly in case anyone didn't notice
> it when they read 
> 'root.mail' as sent to root after a new
> installation... (apropos is also 
> mentioned in root.mail, in the guise of 'man -k').
> Though there's only so 
> much you can do to direct people to the existing
> documentation...if they 
> were going to read it, they most likely would have
> done so already.

I plan to do a complete re-write this evening and
clean up any typos I find.  This was just a quick
skeleton to provide some quick places to go to get a
Newbie started and see if there was any interest in a
document of this sort.

I plan to add a section on how to submit diffs.  I
plan to add some links.  I will explicitly add to read
the afterboot.  And I will tag on the section numbers
to all the man pages I have listed.

Honestly, I have found myself posting to misc asking a
question that was answered in a man page, but I had no
clue how to find the man page or what man page to go
to.

All this document is is a re-write of my installation
notes.

I am open to suggestions.  

Brian
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