A few suggestions for the Istallation Guide -- made by the truly dumb
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 3 20:35:46 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:28 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I am not ordinarily truly dumb; I have installed FC3 and FC4 several
> times previously. But when I installed FC5 about a week ago I wasted
> about 4 hours because my brain refused to work, I had forgotten some
> basics, and frustration took over. Now I've been thinking that if I
> could get my self into so much trouble what could happen with someone
> truly new to Fedora.
>
> * After down loading very slowly using BitTorrent (my cable
> company chokes BitTorrent downloads to about 33 KB/s), I went
> directly to Documentation ==> Installation Guide. Suggestion:
> As one of the first Items in the Table of Contents of the
> Installation Guide replicate the Table of Contents (with links)
> from the Download ==> Download and Installation Instructions.
> * I had forgotten how to use SHA1SUM. 'man' that night seemed
> particularly obtuse. There is a good example in the Download
> and Installation Guide but it took me an hour or so before I
> found it. Suggestion: Installation Guide should have a clear
> link to the Download and Installation Guide or just copy the
> relevant paragraph with perhaps a more detailed explanation for
> how to use SHA1SUM with FC5 downloads. In both, the use of
> SHA1SUM should be a separate ToC item.
> * I only burn .iso images to CD once every 6 to 8 months (for each
> new Fedora release). I tried using the method shown in 4.1
> Preparing CD or DVD media, from the Installation Guide. I tried
> every logical combination of the example used and I couldn't get
> it to work. Probably some examples would have helped. Is
> --device= /dev/hdc or CD-R/W or what? Is image-file.iso generic
> or is it FC5-i386-disc1.iso or what? In any case, I couldn't
> make it work. So I decided to try X-CD-Roast.
> * It took about another hour to find 4.3.2.3 Writing ISOs with
> X-CD-Roast from the Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide --
> linked through the Download and Installation Instructions. This
> ISO burning Howto is excellent.
>
> As a separate suggestion, I have used DiskDruid to set up custom
> partitions in the past, however, this time I wanted to do things
> slightly different. A fuller, more detailed Help button as opposed to
> Release Notes during the DiskDruid part of the installation would have
> been very useful.
>
> In summary, all the info was there, it was just hard to find for a
> newbie or someone suffering from a particularly bad brain cramp.
Copying to fedora-docs list. Thanks for the feedback.
Rahul
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