Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]
Thanks! This will be very helpful. Please see my notes below...
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 04:17 AM, Miroslav Kure wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:42:51AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
I would be very grateful If you (or someone else on this list) could
point me at the chapters and sections of the PowerPC debian-installer
docs that are most seriously out of date, and give me a few hints
as to
where to look for the raw information that I can turn into the needed
updates.
Great. See the other posts about ppc. I'll point you to the
doc/manual/en/.
Please remember that I am a *complete* beginner at things Debian.
I assume that "doc/manual/en" is a directory in some repository of
document source. Where is this repository located and how (using
what protocols/programs) do I access it???
welcome/ is very generic and ok now
hardware/ lists supported hardware, so look at supported/powerps.xml
preparing/ is quite generic, just some bios and partitioning (should
be same as woody)
install-methods/ this is heavily arch dependent
boot-installer/ dtto
the rest of chapters should be common to all archs
partitioning/ there are some arch specific bits, but should be same as
before.
Thanks! This will help me direct my efforts to where they can do
the most good.
Maybe this will all become clear once I get a look at the document
source, but: Is it the plan that there be a separate manual for
each architecture, or just a few architecture specific chapters in
a generic "Installing Debian" manual? Does there exist a design
document for the installation manual? (I know that's too much to
ask of an all-volunteer workforce, but Hey! Sometimes you get
lucky!) If (as seems likely) there was no "intention" per-se (The
existing manual "just grew" as part of an organic process.) what is
the current state of affairs on the placement of architecture
specific information.
I am a competent technical writer and a native speaker of English
with a
long background in UNIX, but I am just beginning with Debian Linux
Since you are native speaker, it would be very helpful if you could
also proofread the generic parts of the manual.
Will do. I can start on this part right away. To whom do I send my
errata?
Cheers
--
Miroslav Kure
Enjoy!
Rick
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