>I think it's a documentation problem. The reference material is thorough
>enough ... if you know what you're doing. But there needs to be
>documentation for people who don't know what they're doing. "RTFM" is not
>enough.

I'm not trying to be defensive here, but I think it might help explain 
why we're where we are with the installation documentation.

The problem, as you noted, is that getting started puts one on the steep 
end of the learning curve right at the start.  However, once you get past 
that point things start to appear to be "obvious" very fast, and even the 
newest users soon quickly forget all the little steps they took to get to 
where they are.  That makes it difficult to write good documentation from 
the "newbie" point of view.  I think what we really need is to encourage 
some of our newest users, like yourself, to try to help out with the 
introductory documentation.  Your struggles are still very fresh in your 
mind and your comments and additions to the installation documentation 
would be very helpful for those who will surely be following you.

Of course the other thing is that some of us feel we are very close to a 
new installation method for the mac68k port and don't want to spend much 
more effort expanding on the current installation documentation.

-bob