Installation Guide

[Stuart Ellis]

The material I have now looks almost like a complete guide, although
it's a bit short of being that.  So I've made it buildable rather than
keep throwing files into Bugzilla.  I've also revised the markup in all
files to bring them into line with Fedora docs.

DocBook:
http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-0.1.tar.gz

HTML output:
http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/index.html

There are a number of blank sections, some because I haven't got the
resources to test these features properly:

- Partitioning (as discussed, probably needs somebody with a multi-disc
RAID system)
- Boot Loader (as above)
- Dual Boot

The Network Login configuration in the System User screen has a large
number of options, and may even warrent being broken out into a separate
section (or appendix, since many installations may not use these
features).  Realistically I'm not going to be able to tackle a number of
these features, so somebody with a purer UNIX network may be better able
to handle this.

The two other things which are untested are USB boot (Beginning the
Installation) and wireless (the Network Configuration screen, presuming
anaconda can handle wireless cards) - again I don't have the equipment
to test these, although the text is complete as is.

Kickstart and Boot Options appendices may be written up over the next
few days.

Still learning as I go along, so all help and comments gratefully
received.
--
Stuart Ellis
s.ellis(a)fastmail.co.uk

[Tammy Fox]

Great work Stuart! This will make it much easier for people to review
the guide and give you feedback.

Tammy

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 02:24 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote:
>  The material I have now looks almost like a complete guide, although
>  it's a bit short of being that.  So I've made it buildable rather than
>  keep throwing files into Bugzilla.  I've also revised the markup in all
>  files to bring them into line with Fedora docs.
>  
>  DocBook:
>  http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-0.1.tar.gz
>  
>  HTML output:
>  http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/index.html
>  
>  There are a number of blank sections, some because I haven't got the
>  resources to test these features properly:
>  
>  - Partitioning (as discussed, probably needs somebody with a multi-disc
>  RAID system)
>  - Boot Loader (as above)
>  - Dual Boot
>  
>  The Network Login configuration in the System User screen has a large
>  number of options, and may even warrent being broken out into a separate
>  section (or appendix, since many installations may not use these
>  features).  Realistically I'm not going to be able to tackle a number of
>  these features, so somebody with a purer UNIX network may be better able
>  to handle this.
>  
>  The two other things which are untested are USB boot (Beginning the
>  Installation) and wireless (the Network Configuration screen, presuming
>  anaconda can handle wireless cards) - again I don't have the equipment
>  to test these, although the text is complete as is.
>  
>  Kickstart and Boot Options appendices may be written up over the next
>  few days.
>  
>  Still learning as I go along, so all help and comments gratefully
>  received.
>  --
>  Stuart Ellis
>  s.ellis(a)fastmail.co.uk

[Stuart Ellis]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:23:17 -0400, "Tammy Fox" <tfox(a)redhat.com&gt; said:
>  This will make it much easier for people to review
>  the guide and give you feedback.
>  
>  Tammy 
I hope so.  In hindsight I've been too intent on trying to make this
document viable as quickly as possible.

The structure and content here are certainly not set in stone.  The FDP
will always be working on an Installation Guide one way or another,
hopefully this will help to get things going by providing a base to work
on.
--
Stuart Ellis
s.ellis(a)fastmail.co.uk

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


a few notes

Please ask the readers to check the relevant release
notes early

http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/s1-aborting-instal...

The above section might be better as a note 

http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/s1-selinux.html

Might be important to linux to the current fedora
selinux faq

Why havent you given the screenshots yet? It might be
worth it to write a faq and refer to that in this
guide

I hope you would be able to get this included before
the release on nov 9th. overall a much needed
document. good work

regards
Rahul Sundaram


		
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[Stuart Ellis]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:35:40 -0700 (PDT), "Rahul Sundaram"
<rahulsundaram(a)yahoo.co.in&gt; said:
>  
>  Please ask the readers to check the relevant release
>  notes early 
There was a paragraph for this in the introduction, which I've now
reworked to make the Release Notes more prominent.

> http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/s1-aborting-instal...
>  
>  The above section might be better as a note  
I agree - this has now been moved to chapter 2 as a note.

> http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/s1-selinux.html
>  
>  Might be important to linux to the current fedora
>  selinux faq 
The targetted policy means that SELinux shouldn't interfere with
anything other than the network services it locks down, so it ought to
be invisible to most users.  I wrote the text to read quickly with each
section as self-contained as possible for those readers who just want to
look up one item, so I would rather avoid putting external links in the
main chapters, but see below...

>  Why havent you given the screenshots yet?  
The view was that we should get the text done, and then do all of the
screenshots at once for consistency.  So at the moment there are just
placeholders where screenshots should be.

> It might be worth it to write a faq and refer to that in this
>  guide 
There isn't an official FAQ at the moment, but there is an unofficial
FAQ Website and couple of other very popular independent sites on the
Web offering support.  Building some kind of relationship between the
various groups will be a big task - at the moment I don't think that the
Fedora Project "officially" recognises or endorses any of these sites,
so we can't really include links to them.

On the other hand I think that the Installation Guide should provide a
smooth progression for new users by suggesting how they might use their
new system, and pointing them to other sources of information that are
available.  I have an idea about this, but it needs a bit more thought.
--
Stuart Ellis
s.ellis(a)fastmail.co.uk