discuss: Request for Review - Linux Home Server HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Request for Review - Linux Home Server HOWTO
From:
Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jan 2005 16:06:59 -0000
Message-Id: <1105805219l.10078l.0l@K8>
Miles,
Overall great work. A question: Is it necessary to have an
'installation' chapter at all when so many other documents out there
address this, and perhaps more distribution specific? Perhaps you could
get away with just some links to the relevant documents. It just seems
that most people that decide to set up a Linux home server are probably
already somewhat familiar with it and have been through the
installation process before.
On 01/14/05 23:35:03, Miles Brennan wrote:
> Yes chapters 3 and 7 are very much fedora, I agree. I have mentioned
> this at the beginning of these chapters and also on the main title
> page.
Also the info in chapter 4 on interface configuration is RH specific.
For Debian systems you can probably link to the following:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-high
Ifconfig, as I understand it, works for all distributions. Also, for
chapter 5 there are already tldp documents addressing types of
broadband connections:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/index.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html
In fact there are a few other sections where your work may already be
done for you (and in some your chapters are better than the relevant
stand-alone tldp document). It might save you some time and extra work
to link where appropriate.
I think the quality of your work is too good to limit its exposure by
making it a Fedora-only document.
hs
