Fedora Installation Guide: a brief rant

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Dec 13 15:37:41 UTC 2009


On 12/13/2009 09:04 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Am I alone in finding the Fedora Installation Guide at
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/>
> almost completely useless?
> 
> The only installation method described with any clarity
> is the creation and use of a Fedora DVD.
> But everything necessary in this case could be written
> on the back of a stamp, or certainly on one web-page.
> 
> Too much information is almost as bad as no information.
> This document contains hundreds of pages
> of completely useless or irrelevant information
> for anyone seeking to install Fedora.
> 
> What I would like to see is a document that starts by saying, 
> "There are 7 ways of installing Fedora on a computer.
> These are ..., and they are described in the following 7 chapters."

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/pr01s02.html

Rahul




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