FAQ Nominations for the Install Guide
So I'm feeling kinda malicious, and I want to create some more work for Dusty and Dennis.
Do you guys n' gals have any suggestions for additions to the FAQ section in the Installation Guide? I'm looking for those questions that a lot of people have to ask during or soon after the installation phase. Stuff that lends insight into the way Arch works and little "gotchas" that occur during the install for some people.
Check out the latest revision of the doc for examples. Dennis has recently updated it.
http://www.archlinux.org/~judd/arch-install-guide.html
Other non-FAQ related suggestions are welcome too.
How about mentioning that the AMD K6 line of processors are i586, and won't work with Arch. We could say "Intel Pentium2/Celeron or AMD Athlon/Duron or newer i686 processors." Come to think of it, does Transmeta Crusoe count as i686? We could mention that too.
I keep mentioning this here, but I would like the focus to shift to the quickinst script. We could write a simple installation document detailing the quickinst installation procedure, explaining the most common things to do before and after installing (such as cfdisk, mkreiserfs, mkswap, lilo / grub). We could give an example for each of these to get things working on a typical system, and giving links to printable man pages online for those who need it.
Perhaps I should start working on this document myself, and post it here. Documentors, please let me know if you're interested.
In honesty, I believe the quickinst script would be easier to document. Especially since most of the work will be done by the user with external (stable, already well documented) tools.
0.7 should definitely be moving towards setting up UDev by default. This should be reflected in the documentation.
I've got to get going, but I'll post here again soon
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