discuss: replacing the howto and reviewing
Subject:
Re: replacing the howto and reviewing
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
13 Nov 2003 22:33:58 -0000
Message-Id: <1068762809.20290.10.camel@mysticchild>
Thanks for the observations. It's nice to know some of the material has
relevance in existing documentation.
I appreciate your help too if/when you find time for that review you
mentioned. :D
Tab
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:02, David Lawyer wrote:
> > diskless howto -??
>
> This was once a pretty good HOWTO until Al Dev took it over and perhaps
> degraded it. Also, it's now mostly obsolete due to the Linux Terminal
> Server Project (LTSP) which Al Dev has devoted a section to. Good! But
> he should have gone thru the old HOWTO and added notes to various parts
> of it pointing out the impact of LTSP on those parts. For example, with
> LTSP one can boot from a floppy so it's not essential to burn a EEPROM
> anymore (unless you need a speedy boot), etc.
>
> Some of these pre LTSP procedures may still be of use in special cases
> and this should be discussed, but it's not. Perhaps still-useful parts
> of it could be merged with Network-boot-HOWTO and/or
> Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO.
>
> > modem dialup nt howto - ??
>
> This HOWTO has a lot of faults, but has some possibly useful parts such
> as wvdial. The title word NT (Windows) should be removed as it doesn't
> cover Windows NT. If I find time, I'll write up a brief review of this
> one. It could be merged with the PPP-HOWTO and/or the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO,
> both of which are out-of-date. In my Modem-HOWTO I cover analog modems
> and partially, dialup (but not PPP; I drew a line in the sand and will
> not cover network protocols such as PPP, although I do mention it).
> Thus most all of this HOWTO is already covered in other HOWTOs. But it
> would be nice to have an up-to-date HOWTO on how to connect to an ISP
> with an analog modem.
>
> David Lawyer
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Tabatha Marshall
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