3 commits - en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml en_US/Package_notes.xml
Paul W. Frields
pfrields at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 6 22:25:21 UTC 2008
en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml | 57 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
en_US/Package_notes.xml | 14 +++++-----
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit b3be078fbe279c138efc95c6c270de45a2100382
Author: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 6 17:25:00 2008 -0500
Style fixes.
diff --git a/en_US/Package_notes.xml b/en_US/Package_notes.xml
index 2feda10..be46864 100644
--- a/en_US/Package_notes.xml
+++ b/en_US/Package_notes.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<section lang="en" id="sn-Package_notes">
- <title>Package notes</title>
+ <title>Package Notes</title>
<para>The following sections contain information regarding software
packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora 10. For
easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
<para>Fedora 10 includes version 2.6 of the GNU Image Manipulation
Program.</para>
<para>This new version is designed to be backwards compatible, so
- existing third party plug-ins and scripts should continue to work
- -- with a minor caveat: The included Script-Fu Scheme interpreter
- doesn't accept variable definitions without an initial value
- anymore (which isn't compliant to the language standard). Scripts
+ existing third party plug-ins and scripts should continue to work,
+ with a minor caveat. The included Script-Fu Scheme interpreter
+ no longer accepts variable definitions without an initial value,
+ which is not compliant to the language standard. Scripts
included in Fedora packages should not have this problem, but if
you use scripts from other sources, please refer to the GIMP
release notes for more details and how you can fix scripts that
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
url="http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html"/></para>
<para>Additionally, the <command>gimptool</command> script that is
used to build and install third party plug-ins and scripts has
- been moved from the <package>gimp</package> to the
+ been moved from the <package>gimp</package> package to the
<package>gimp-devel</package> package. Install this package if you
want to use <command>gimptool</command>.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Legal_information">
- <title>Legal information</title>
+ <title>Legal Information</title>
<para>The following legal information concerns some software in
Fedora.</para>
<para>
commit 4a3f72a3edde1d9ae2c7f819c81f89590a125973
Author: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 6 17:21:34 2008 -0500
Some grammatical and style fixes.
diff --git a/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml b/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
index a6b79b6..3bffd39 100644
--- a/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
+++ b/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
<para>Support for keeping a persistent <filename>/home</filename>
with the rest of the system stateless has been added for Fedora
10. This includes support for encrypting
- <filename>/home</filename> to protect your system in the case
- where your USB stick is lost or stolen. To use this, download the
+ <filename>/home</filename> to protect your system if
+ your USB stick is lost or stolen. To use this feature, download the
live image and run the following command:</para>
<screen>
<userinput>livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 512 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput>
commit 35bfbe5ffe8899ff1a3775b4ceca6c461ad9e04e
Author: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 6 16:35:23 2008 -0500
Stylistic and editorial updates.
* Note that these changes are no longer reflected in the
wiki! The wiki has been frozen at this point for Fedora
10 release notes content. Further content changes are
being made only to XML, to fix Bugzilla-filed bugs or
reflect pre-existing content changes in the wiki.
diff --git a/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml b/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
index bdc8d8b..a6b79b6 100644
--- a/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
+++ b/en_US/Fedora_Live_images.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<section id="sn-Fedora_Live_images" lang="en">
- <title>Fedora Live images</title>
+ <title>Fedora Live Images</title>
<para>The Fedora 10 release includes several Fedora Live ISO images in
addition to the traditional installation images. These ISO images
are bootable, and you can burn them to media and use them to try out
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Fedora Live image content to your hard drive for persistence and
higher performance.</para>
<section id="sn-Available_images">
- <title>Available images</title>
+ <title>Available Images</title>
<para>For a complete list of current spins available, and
instructions for using them, refer to:</para>
<para>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Usage_information">
- <title>Usage information</title>
+ <title>Usage Information</title>
<para>To boot from the Fedora Live image, insert it into your
computer and restart. To log in and use the desktop environment,
enter the username <systemitem
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@
to Hard Drive</guiicon> icon on the desktop.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Text_mode_installation">
- <title>Text mode installation</title>
+ <title>Text Mode Installation</title>
<para>You can do a text mode installation of the Fedora Live images
using the <command>liveinst</command> command in the
console.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-USB_booting">
- <title>USB booting</title>
+ <title>USB Booting</title>
<para>Another way to use these Fedora Live images is to put them on
a USB stick. To do this, use the
<package>liveusb-creator</package> graphical interface. Use
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@
interface from the <package>livecd-tools</package> package. Then,
run the <command>livecd-iso-to-disk</command> script:</para>
<screen>
- <userinput>/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/live.iso
- /dev/sdb1</userinput>
+ <userinput>/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput>
</screen>
<para>Replace <filename>/dev/sdb1</filename> with the partition
where you want to put the image.</para>
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@
preserved</emphasis>.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Persistent_home_directory">
- <title>Persistent home directory</title>
+ <title>Persistent Home Directory</title>
<para>Support for keeping a persistent <filename>/home</filename>
with the rest of the system stateless has been added for Fedora
10. This includes support for encrypting
@@ -68,8 +67,7 @@
where your USB stick is lost or stolen. To use this, download the
live image and run the following command:</para>
<screen>
- <userinput>livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 512 /path/to/live.iso
- /dev/sdb1</userinput>
+ <userinput>livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 512 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput>
</screen>
<para>Replace <filename>/dev/sdb1</filename> with the partition
where you want to put the image.</para>
@@ -89,16 +87,13 @@
image.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Live_USB_persistence">
- <title>Live USB persistence</title>
+ <title>Live USB Persistence</title>
<para>Support for persistent changes with a Fedora Live image exists
for Fedora 9 and later. The primary use case is booting from a
Fedora Live image on a USB flash drive and storing changes to that
same device. To do this, download the Fedora Live image and then
run the following command:</para>
- <screen>
- <userinput>livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512
- /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput>
- </screen>
+ <screen><userinput>livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput></screen>
<para>Replace <filename>/dev/sdb1</filename> with the partition
where you want to put the image.</para>
<para>Replace <computeroutput>512</computeroutput> with the desired
@@ -110,18 +105,15 @@
Fedora Live image, plus the overlay, plus any other data to be
stored on the media.</para>
</section>
- <section id="sn-Booting_a_Fedora_Live_image_off_of_USB_on_Intel-based_Apple_hardware">
- <title>Booting a Fedora Live image off of USB on Intel-based Apple
- hardware</title>
- <para>Fedora 10 includes support for putting the live image onto a
+ <section id="sn-Booting_Live_USB_Intel_Apple">
+ <title>Booting a Fedora Live Image from USB on Intel-based Apple
+ Hardware</title>
+ <para>Fedora 10 includes support for putting the Live image onto a
USB image and then booting it on Intel processor-based Apple
- hardware. Unlike for most x86 machines, this unfortunately
- requires reformatting the USB stick that you are using. To set up
- a stick for this, you can run:</para>
- <screen>
- <userinput>/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --mactel /path/to/live.iso
- /dev/sdb1</userinput>
- </screen>
+ hardware. Unlike most x86 machines, this hardware
+ requires reformatting the USB stick. To set up
+ a USB stick, run this command:</para>
+ <screen><userinput>/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --mactel /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1</userinput></screen>
<para>Replace <filename>/dev/sdb1</filename> with the partition
where you want to put the image.</para>
<para>Note that all of the other arguments for the
@@ -129,9 +121,9 @@
be used here as well.</para>
</section>
<section id="sn-Differences_from_a_regular_Fedora_install">
- <title>Differences from a regular Fedora install</title>
- <para>The following items are different from a normal Fedora install
- with the Fedora Live images.</para>
+ <title>Differences from a Regular Fedora Installation</title>
+ <para>The Fedora Live image is different from a normal Fedora
+ installation as shown below.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Fedora Live images provide a subset of packages available
@@ -147,7 +139,7 @@
</listitem><listitem>
<para>Fedora Live image installations do not allow any package
selection or upgrade capability since they copy the entire
- file system from media or USB disks to the hard disk. After
+ file system from the Live media to the hard disk. After
the installation is complete, and your system has been
rebooted, you can add and remove packages as desired with the
<guimenuitem>Add/Remove Packages</guimenuitem> tool,
@@ -160,4 +152,3 @@
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
-
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