discuss: Thread: New HOWTO ?

Hi, I am considering submitting a mini HOWTO - it's a document I 
found online some time ago, and it was very very useful to me in 
setting up a system (it's a HOWTO for using the NT bootloader to 
boot Linux, DOS, Win9x, OS/2 etc)

It was very hard to re-find the second time I wanted it, so I 
made a mirror on my own site, and started trying to contact 
the author, with no success.  This was over 2 years ago, so I 
think it is fair to take it over with appropriate credit to 
the original author, and I would of course happily hand it 
back over should he surface at a later date...

I am currently reading the LDP author guide, it says emailing 
this address is the first step in submitting a new HOWTO, so 
here I am.  I shall read the rest of it while I wait for any 
replies  :)

By the way, the document is presently in HTML, but I would be 
happy to learn DocBook and do the conversion myself before I 
submit the document.  The present copy can be seen here:

http://www.concretecow.com/linux/dualboot.html

Regards,
Denny

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:05:43PM +0000, Denny wrote:
> Hi, I am considering submitting a mini HOWTO - it's a document I 
> found online some time ago, and it was very very useful to me in 
> setting up a system (it's a HOWTO for using the NT bootloader to 
> boot Linux, DOS, Win9x, OS/2 etc)
> 
> It was very hard to re-find the second time I wanted it, so I 
> made a mirror on my own site, and started trying to contact 
> the author, with no success.  This was over 2 years ago, so I 
> think it is fair to take it over with appropriate credit to 
> the original author, and I would of course happily hand it 
> back over should he surface at a later date...
> 
> I am currently reading the LDP author guide, it says emailing 
> this address is the first step in submitting a new HOWTO, so 
> here I am.  I shall read the rest of it while I wait for any 
> replies  :)
> 
> By the way, the document is presently in HTML, but I would be 
> happy to learn DocBook and do the conversion myself before I 
> submit the document.  The present copy can be seen here:
> 
> http://www.concretecow.com/linux/dualboot.html

Unless I'm missing something, this sounds like a duplicate of our
existing NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html

Now that document hasn't been updated since 1997, but then again it
may not have changed much. Even after 6 service packs. ;-)

See if you can improve the existing doc instead of duplicating it.
You'll need to write to the author to do that.

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:05:43PM +0000, Denny wrote:
> > Hi, I am considering submitting a mini HOWTO - it's a document I 
> > found online some time ago, and it was very very useful to me in 
> > setting up a system (it's a HOWTO for using the NT bootloader to 
> > boot Linux, DOS, Win9x, OS/2 etc)
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, this sounds like a duplicate of our
> existing NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html

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> Now that document hasn't been updated since 1997, but then again it
> may not have changed much. Even after 6 service packs. ;-)

*grin*

> See if you can improve the existing doc instead of duplicating it.
> You'll need to write to the author to do that.

Of course...  I'll have a look at it, when I can find it that is.  
I did browse through before I sent my mail, but may well have 
missed something blindingly obvious from the sound of it  :)

Regards,
Denny

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(Elbert Hubbard)

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something, this sounds like a duplicate of our
> existing NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html

Got it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html

Looks like much the same info... sorry to have wasted everyone's 
time  :(  I'll probably offer the author some fixed English - 
judging by a quick skim of bits of it it's not his first language.

Regards,
Denny

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped
(Elbert Hubbard)

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:26:03PM +0000, Denny wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, David Merrill wrote:
> 
> > Unless I'm missing something, this sounds like a duplicate of our
> > existing NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> 
> Got it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> 
> Looks like much the same info... sorry to have wasted everyone's 
> time  :(  I'll probably offer the author some fixed English - 
> judging by a quick skim of bits of it it's not his first language.

We strongly encourage cooperation! Do not throw away your work -
integrate it with the existing HOWTO through the current author,
please.

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