Re: Porteus Documentation--Development and Process
Posted: 12 May 2011, 15:38
Ok -- I have a job, for anyone who is willing to help (Doc team or otherwise).
I'd like to have better documentation for performing a frugal install to a hard drive. As you can see in the official install guide (http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-install ... rd%20Drive) the official documentation here is slim. This is on purpose, because I don't know how to do a frugal install beyond the basics, and because there are so many ways to do it.
That said, I would like to put up a number of HOWTO's with a similar format and steps, to get porteus booting with a variety of bootloaders and existing installs (linux and windows). I'll post the HOWTO's to the main site and create links to them from within the official install guide.
We have a guide already (thanks to brokenman!) for dual booting with windows:
http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-install ... ndows.html
If anyone has other ways they like to dual boot porteus with windows, please let us know, and a brief outline of instructions would be appreciated.
Also, I'd like to have HOWTO's on configuring Grub, Grub4dos, Grub2, lilo, and any other bootloader you all might be using, with example config files (e.g. menu.lst). In many cases the config files will be the most important step, because all folks really need to do is extract the files to their partition and configure their bootloader to see porteus. Examples showing how to boot from ISO's would also be great.
The goal is to make it clear and easy for someone with, for example, Ubuntu, to download Porteus, stick it in alongside Ubuntu, and learn what a real distro is all about
Thanks!
-Ahau
Posted after 20 hours 42 minutes 21 second:
I've modified the quick install instructions above and added them to the official install guide on the main website, as "Quick and Dirty Installation Instructions", so that advanced users can get an overview of the process, and only read more if they need to. Beginners will also then have an outline of the process, and not be scared off by a seemingly lengthy install process. I still think it would be good to keep the text above in a separate, easy to find text file in the root of the ISO.
I'd like to have better documentation for performing a frugal install to a hard drive. As you can see in the official install guide (http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-install ... rd%20Drive) the official documentation here is slim. This is on purpose, because I don't know how to do a frugal install beyond the basics, and because there are so many ways to do it.
That said, I would like to put up a number of HOWTO's with a similar format and steps, to get porteus booting with a variety of bootloaders and existing installs (linux and windows). I'll post the HOWTO's to the main site and create links to them from within the official install guide.
We have a guide already (thanks to brokenman!) for dual booting with windows:
http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-install ... ndows.html
If anyone has other ways they like to dual boot porteus with windows, please let us know, and a brief outline of instructions would be appreciated.
Also, I'd like to have HOWTO's on configuring Grub, Grub4dos, Grub2, lilo, and any other bootloader you all might be using, with example config files (e.g. menu.lst). In many cases the config files will be the most important step, because all folks really need to do is extract the files to their partition and configure their bootloader to see porteus. Examples showing how to boot from ISO's would also be great.
The goal is to make it clear and easy for someone with, for example, Ubuntu, to download Porteus, stick it in alongside Ubuntu, and learn what a real distro is all about
Thanks!
-Ahau
Posted after 20 hours 42 minutes 21 second:
I've modified the quick install instructions above and added them to the official install guide on the main website, as "Quick and Dirty Installation Instructions", so that advanced users can get an overview of the process, and only read more if they need to. Beginners will also then have an outline of the process, and not be scared off by a seemingly lengthy install process. I still think it would be good to keep the text above in a separate, easy to find text file in the root of the ISO.