Net-install

[Corey Burger]

On 4/20/05, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> 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).
> 

It has now been a month and I haven't been working on this. If someone
else wants to pick it up, that would be great.

Corey