[RULE] What should go in the RULE install guide?

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 16:58:21 at 04:58:21PM +0200, Kweskin Richard (rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr) wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I suggest that the guide be broken down into parts for easier reading and 
> understanding.
> 
I am not sure about what is being suggested:
	breaking the current single file in one file per section
	keep one file but number sections and add an index?
	anything else?

I have played a bit with Perl on the current install guide version.
Right now, its table of content would look like this (please check it
against the questions at the bottom):

##################################################################
1 The RULE install guide (version 0.3, 2003/03/08) 
2 History of changes
3 Overview
4 Prerequisites
5 Hard drive repartitioning
6 How to create boot floppies
    6.1 With Slinky
    6.2 With Miniconda
    6.3 Copying the images on floppy
    6.4 Creating boot disks under MSDOS or Windows
    6.5 Creating the updates floppy without Linux
7 General instructions
    7.1 How to declare memory when booting
    7.2 How to declare drivers disks
8 How to start
    8.1 Booting from floppy disk
9 Kernel modules needed during the install
10 Installing with Slinky
    10.1 Note
11 Supported install modes
    11.1 Local CDROM install
    11.2 NFS install
    11.3 Installing from local ISO IMAGE(S)
    11.4 HTTP and FTP
    11.5 Installing from local RPMs
    11.6 Note about network installs
12 Other common information
    12.1 The i386 kernel problem
    12.2 Slinky environment customization
    12.3 Virtual Consoles
    12.4 Partitions
    12.5 NOTES ABOUT GRUB (and lilo)
    12.6 Booting with a floppy
    12.7 Working with challenged laptops
    12.8 Boot disks
13 Step-by-Step Slinky install
14 INSTALLATION WITH MINICONDA
    14.1 New section for Red Hat 8.0
    14.2 Old miniconda section
######################################################################

Now the questions:
(to Richard)
you submitted:

	a) introduction
	b) partitioning
	c) what to download
	d) copying the images
If I understand it correctly, a) should substitute chapter 1, b
chapter 5, d) subchapter 6.3 and c) should go where? (I am asking this
on list before reading them in detail to involve/keep current the
whole list on this)

TO EVERYBODY:
please "vote" on the current Table of Contents. Specifically, reply on
the list by stripping everybody but the ToC above, and writing
incomplete/wrong/unclear/whatever aside the sections that in your opinion are
worst today (explaining why, please :-) ). Also, please missing
chapter titles wherever you see fit.

I'll take care to edit/integrate/(re)write everything that comes out
of this discussion.
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
					Marco Fioretti
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