Installation guide

[Murray Gunn]

Sure, Phil.  I'm also off for the week of the 19th, but I'll get stuck 
into this this week.  In fact, I'll start now by creating 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/InstallationGuide.

MAG

On 11/07/10 04:04, Phil Bull wrote:
> Hi Murray,
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 22:17 +1000, Murray Gunn wrote:
>    
>> I've been out of action with 5 component failures in as many weeks,
>> but I think I've finally got a stable PC again.  I'm definitely keen
>> to get moving on this.  My question still stands (perhaps you've
>> answered it further down the list) as to the location of this guide.
>> Will it be on the wiki?
>>      
> Wow, that's unlucky! Glad you're back up and running.
>
> I was thinking of writing the guide in text files first, and then adding
> markup later. The text could certainly be placed on the wiki, and it
> sounds like a good idea, so we should probably do that.
>
> Unfortunately I'm away for a couple of weeks starting on Monday, so I
> won't be able to give this much attention for a little while. There are
> a couple of tasks you could have a go at to prepare, though, if you
> like? Here's what I was thinking:
>
>        * A wiki page needs to be created to hold the working copy of the
>          document. It doesn't matter where you put it, anywhere sensible
>          on wiki.ubuntu.com will do.
>        * The existing installation-related material from the Ubuntu
>          Manual (http://ubuntu-manual.org/) needs to be copied across,
>          text-only, so we can use it as a base for the new document.
>        * You need to set-up a virtual machine and download an Ubuntu
>          LiveCD .iso so you can test the installer. I quite like
>          VirtualBox, but there are others.
>
> How does that sound? Once I'm back we should have a meeting on IRC to
> discuss it properly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>    
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