Subject: Suggestion for consideration.....
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org, port-sparc@netbsd.org, port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: None <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/29/1999 12:56:20
Hi all... and kudos to everyone's fine work.

I have a suggestion, that I hope all will not take too unkindly of me,
but, it might help one see the forest for the trees, as is said in the
vernacular.

Suggestion:  Is it possible to cut the INSTALL guides into two pieces
             (maybe an INSTALL.readme and an INSTALL.howto) such that
             one does not have to continuously wade through 20 screens
             of acknowledgements before getting to the meat of any
             particular machine install?

There is a lot to wade through, and although I try to print out the
particular guides ahead of time, to be covered when installing a 
new type of machine, it would be very nice and quick, if one did
not have to wade through page after page of leadin, just to get to
the details of the commands to type to begin the install.

It is rather cumbersome to page, page, page, then go try it, and
if it is not quite right, page, page, page again.

I would expect that for many folks, most of us whom have at least some
prior unix experience or system usage, a stripped down howto with only
the exact invocations required, would do nicely.  It is not really
like the pmax QUICK.INSTALL, but even more stripped down so that
one has just a list of the command line invocations required.

I always have to look twice at the INSTALLS to make sure of where
I am going, and I am not really a unix dummy.  But, it sure would
make things faster, and more efficient, if there were a light and
stripped to the minimum one or two screens full to go through.

Just thinking out loud.....

Bob Keys