Subject: Re: which boot image to use
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 10/28/2004 12:33:11
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:29, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:12:22 -0400, "Brian A. Seklecki"
> <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> > Yet another draft copy:
> > 
> > http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/htdocs/guide/en/chap-misc.html#chap-misc-mkbootable-iso
> > 
> > ...pending response from some of the more exotic ports on 2.0 updates /
> > changes, I'll submit a patch via send-pr(1)
> 

[...snip...]

> +++
> 
> I hope these points are useful.  
> 
> If you like my ideas, I'd be willing to participate in the effort more
> directly and review the whole thing.  I'm not set up atm to build the
> guide (at least, I don't think so), but that's fairly easily remedied.  
> 

Actually my original goal was to simply merge the Documentation/
cdrom.{list,html} content into the guide chap-misc.{xml,html}.  All
content not related to bootable cd-rom images was written by the
original author.  I have, however, taken the liberty of making the
corrections you have outlined.


> 8. Who is "me" and "I" in this document?  Do we want it in first 
> person?  

...I didn't write a lot of the original content, so I cannot speak for
issues of "tense"; however I do notice that a lot of the original
content is in the 1st person.

Personally when I write content, I try to make it as "dry" and "benign"
of tense as possible as to ease translation, avoiding complicated use of
English grammatical structure.

> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl