how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Dec 26 17:59:27 UTC 2007


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>   by the way, the above is still not annoyance-free:
>> OK....
>>
>> So, I gather from all of this that the existing documentation,
>> links, and whatever doesn't measure up to what you need or expect.
>> Would that be a fair summary?
>>
>> Is the question then, how can documentation be improved for the
>> average user?
> 
> all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to figure
> out what should have been a two-minute exercise.  i'm guessing that,
> in most cases, readers aren't interested in a long-winded overview of
> things -- they just want to know what commands to run to get
> something done, which is all i wanted in the first place.
> 
> in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with tight,
> concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box.  if they choose
> to read up later on the underlying operations, then that's their
> choice.

Right....  Not a bad idea.

All we need now is someone to author the cookbook and someone to contribute
the first recipe.

Karl?




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