[Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Drafts/SystemPlanningGuide" by SamFolkWilliams
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 03:09:20 UTC 2006
Comments below:
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:35 +0000, fedorawiki-noreply at fedoraproject.org
wrote:
> The following page has been changed by SamFolkWilliams:
> http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki/Docs/Drafts/SystemPlanningGuide
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...snip...]
> - What is open source, how that affects
> + 1. Before you begin the install
> + * Decide how to structure your file system
> + * Case scenarios
> + * Example configurations
> + * Decide if you wish to use LVM and/or software RAID
> + * Benefits of
> + * Hardware requirements
> + * Limitations
> + * Determine your firewall requirements
> + * Overview of how iptables works
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How much detail here is going to be dependent on the target audience.
To determine your target audience, define what knowledge, skills, and
abilities a reader must possess for this guide to be useful.
I think it would be useful for the contributors to discuss the target
audience before filling in too much more detail here. Such a discussion
would probably cut down on effort spent arguing over how much
information to include.
> + * Importance of
> + * Example configurations, including info on how to change later on
> + * Determine what packages you want or need to install
> + * Default, or not default
> + * How to update/install software later
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Point to Stuart's yum guide rather than rewriting. We don't want to
have to maintain two documents every time something changes in a
release.
> + * Everything and minimal options (Why no longer available)
See numerous threads in f-devel-list... ;-D
> - * what is in a distribution (nothing proprietary in Fedora)
> - * software lifecycle (major releases twice a year, frequent updates that you can download automatically)
> - * the choices you get when you install Fedora (many packages to choose among including several choices for most major functions, up to and including your desktop environment; you can build a very small and simple system or a system that is very rich)
> - * how you get help (from the community, not customer service; pointers to other pages about mailinglists and websites; bug-reporting tools that have the additional benefit of letting you see exactly what bugs have been reported and how they are being acted on)
> + 1. Post-install planning
> + * The Firstboot and basic configuration
> + * Overview of package management strategy
> + * Overview of basic "Newbie" pointers
> + * How to get help
> + * What now? (Further reading)
Careful here, this is starting to look somewhat repetitive with the
Installation Guide! I would recommend everyone read that cover-to-cover
to familiarize themselves with the content. No reason you can't argue
to move something out of the IG and into the SPG, but again, conserve
energy where possible...
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