Installation Guide

Jordan Mantha mantha at chem.unr.edu
Thu Feb 23 17:13:14 UTC 2006



Matthew East wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:01 -0800, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>> Jerome Gotangco wrote:
>>> Hmm the package is obtainable from the CD.
>>>
>>> The request is reasonable though, I can put it in hudson (where
>>> help.u.c and doc.u.c reside) but by just looking at the TOC, not much
>>> has changed since breezy (the past d-i manuals are also available in
>>> archive.u.c) except the version number and code names and I have been
>>> heavily reading those  docs lately (not to mention this is basically
>>> the d-i manual). Not so sure if there are going to be more big string
>>> changes to that doc as well.
>> I don't think there is any reason to use the packages for
>> doc.ubuntu.com. I think we should just make a page on doc.u.c with
>> categorized links to the Debian online versions with a little
>> summary/description. That way people can still find everything from
>> doc.u.c (help.u.c might be better for linking to the current Debian
>> doc). I find the Debian docs site (http://www.debian.org/doc/) to be
>> very unhelpful if you don't know exactly which doc you want and I don't
>> think it is necessary to rework/rebuild the Debian docs if we don't
>> have. to.
> 
> But this is not the debian doc, it is the Ubuntu installation guide.
> Yes, it comes from a Debian document, but then again, so does the
> installer, and the document is patched for Ubuntu. At least that is the
> impression I got from Colin, and a quick glance at the document.
> 
> Matt
> 

Doh, should've seen the ubuntuX version. Your right. Although I still
think it might be a good idea to set up a Debian doc link page. I could
throw up a quick wiki to see if the team likes the idea. It is appealing
to me because I often have to refer to Debian docs.

-Jordan





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