hi everybody On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:44:19PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > As Joey prepares 3.0r1 I believe this would be a good oppurtunity to > make request for feedback and alterations abount/for the release notes. (funny that you would ask right about when I was going to write) <disclaimer> I may have overlooked some document(s) </disclaimer> one big difference between potato and woody is in the availability of CDs: now they can be downloaded using jigdo; but the release notes do not mention this (big) improvement; so people that are upgrading their system may not notice it so you may add a line in the release notes, and tell people to give a look in www.debian.org/CD the installation guide may be improved as well: it just says <<By far the easiest way to install Debian GNU/Linux is from an Official Debian CD-ROM Set (see the CD vendors page). You may also download the CD-ROM images from the Debian server and make your own set, if you have a fast network connection and a CD burner. >> I would change both the installation guide and the release notes, and add a link; the installation guide may be changed to: <<By far the easiest way to install Debian GNU/Linux is from an Official Debian CD-ROM Set. You may buy a set from a vendor (read http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ for a list of such vendors); you may also download the CD-ROM images from the Debian server and make your own set, if you have a fast network connection and a CD burner; but we recommend that you read the documents at http://www.debian.org/CD/ before.>> --- there is another problem: neither the release notes, nor the installation notes, tell the answer to this question "which CDs are needed for a small installation and which for a full one?" the answer is buried deep in http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#which-cd http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#nonus and it took me some time to find it. I may add that the answer http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#nonus is also not very clear to me, but this is a problem with my english. I think IMHO that this is a relevant info: the installation note should probably say something like that: <<to install Debian 3.0 you may use CDs sets. A full CD set for Debian 3.0 is composed of 7 CDs, containing binary code; the source code for Debian 3.0 packages is in 7 CDs. To install Debian, you don't necessarily need all the 7 CDs. etc etc>> and the release note may as well mention that the Debian 3.0 is in 7 binary CDs, 7 source CDs also, they may explain the difference between binary-1-NONUS and binary-1 a little; something like <<if you live in the US, the first CD in a set is called binary-1, otherwise binary-1-NONUS >> > Please send your corrections/fixes preferably as diff against the > version in cvs -> > debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/release-notes.sgml. sorry I don't know SGML... :-( my fault bye and thanks a. -- Andrea Mennucc "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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