On Wednesday 15 October 2003 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 12:42 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: > >When you boot up CD1 of the 2 CD set it shows right there on the welcome > >screen after completely booting up, instructions for loading in the > >installation document into the text based browser. Those instructions are > >almost the same as the ones on the website... but it did mention that the > >more recent version on the website should be referred to if in doubt. > > I had issues with the instructions myself and I'd like to think I'm not a > linux newbie. I've been using Linux since late '97... My first distro was > Redhat 5.0 --- no GUI, newbie-friendly install process there. After that it > was Mandrake (as easy as installing Windows), and then Debian for a couple > of years. > > It took me (3) tries with Gentoo. After attempt # 2, I gave up ... for > about three days. :) I then printed out the instructions from the website > and followed them. > > 1) IMO, there are mistakes in the instructions that will throw many people, > myself included. > 2) There needs to be seperate instructions for stage1 installs, stage2, > stage3, GRP, and stage3+GRP (seperate instructions may alleviate (1) in > that some things weren't clear enough that you had to do something vs it > only applies to a different install method. > >
the GRP 2 disc sets should have instructions that are specific to them only. All the rest of the stuff should be cut out completely as it only leads to confusion as to where you should be next when it tells you to skip to the next bit etc. in fact, I might just do this myself from the current instructions on the website and send the resulting file back as my giving back. > Regards > Hall > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
