Net-install

[Sean Wheller]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 14:43, Corey Burger wrote:
> It seems we are lacking documentation on this topic. I cannot find one
> in the wiki or svn. If there is one, can someone point me to it?
>
> If there isn't, consider this a plea to those who have used it to
> please right us a doc for it.
>
> I, at some later date, ask on ubuntu-devel as well.

Hello Corey,

Marc Herbert has released a copy of 
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

On behalf of the team I would like to that Marc for this most excellent 
contribution. Thanks Marc.

To the ubuntu doc-team under the conditions of our documentation license. I 
was planning on adding this to the installation guide I am writing. Perhaps 
you would like to do it in my place. I had planned it as an addition chapter. 
As you know the guide is at present, a description of the basic installation.

The installation guide is in 
https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/generic/instalguide

What follows is confirmation to the list of Marc Herbert.

On Friday 08 April 2005 23:26, you wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>  You may be interested by this documentation I wrote:
>
> "Install GNU/Linux without any CD, floppy, USB-key, nor any other
> removable media"
> http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html
>
> Feel free to abuse it and put some pieces of it on Ubuntu's Wiki
> (which is really lacking such a doc IMHO, cause netbooting is way too
> complicated), forward the link to ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com ,
> or whatever.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc.

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Sean Wheller wrote:

> Questions:
> 1. Do you have a Docbook XML src of this document?

Nope, it's reStructuredText (i.e. mostly ASCII).

I find XML is overkill for such short (well, not so long :-)
documents, and that good Docbook toolsets are not convenient enough
yet.


> 2. I understand that you are happy to release under dual license (CC-BY-SA 
2.0
> and GFDL?

Well, it's been a long time that I know I have to dig into this legal
stuff... will do quickly and come back to you. Thanks a lot for you
interest.

Cheers,

Marc.


On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Sean Wheller wrote:

> On Friday 08 April 2005 23:26, Marc Herbert wrote:

> >  You may be interested by this documentation I wrote:
> >
> > "Install GNU/Linux without any CD, floppy, USB-key, nor any other
> > removable media"
> > http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html
> >

> Questions:
> 1. Do you have a Docbook XML src of this document?

Since 5 minutes, mostly yes. There is a link to a generated docbook
file a the bottom of the page. This is really amazing: I downloaded
some experimental python translation tool, and it worked right away
without crashing or dumping garbage. The most time was spent figuring
out where to install it... incredible.

I played a little bit with the docbook result and it seems
docbook2whatever can get very decent things from it. I dunno what you
are looking for exactly, hopefully you will find this useful.


> 2. I understand that you are happy to release under dual license (CC-BY-SA 
2.0
> and GFDL?

Done (thanks for the hints).

Cheers,

Marc.
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Sean Wheller
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