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Re: bad press at www.linuxworld.com



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:15:43AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:11:21AM +0200, Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > > > > > > - Identify themselves as the debian rescue floppy which is certianly
> > > > > > >   confusing if you don't read documentation.
> > > > > >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Imagine my sympathy. This is someone passing himself off as a reviewer,
> > > > > > but he can't be bothered to read the docs?
> > > > > 
> > > > > One thing not so clear is the location of rescue disks and the documents for
> > > > > a person new to debian.
> > > > 
> > > > I agree with this. Location of rescue disks is really hard to guess.
> > > 
> > > The potato CDs have the Installation Manual in a (more or less) intuitive
> > > locations:
> > > 
> > > doc/install/index.html
> > > install/doc/index.html
> > > 
> > > The top-level README.html file also links to the Manual in a straightforward
> > > manner.
> > 
> > We're not talking about the manual but about rescue.bin, root.bin, etc ...
> 
> The manual is supposed to tell you where those files are.

Just because the manual tells you were they are doesn't make it the best logical place. We're mixing up 2 different things.


> 
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