Subject: Re: Another Manual ???
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/20/2000 11:36:06
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> David, you are indeed correct, the instructions posted are really only
> simple to those who have already used some unix system before.
>
> To a complete newbie, it is gibberish.
Indeed! But consider the audience. It was not posted for a complete
newbie; it was posted for someone who's done several NetBSD installs
(presumably) and wishes to write documentation for a newbie. What you
saw was my brief outline for an entire chapter of a book that, as well
as saying `disklabel the disk,' would discuss what a disklabel is,
how the system uses it, how one edits one, and so on.
cjs
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