On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:28 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I am not ordinarily truly dumb; I have installed FC3 and FC4 several > times previously. But when I installed FC5 about a week ago I wasted > about 4 hours because my brain refused to work, I had forgotten some > basics, and frustration took over. Now I've been thinking that if I > could get my self into so much trouble what could happen with someone > truly new to Fedora. > > * After down loading very slowly using BitTorrent (my cable > company chokes BitTorrent downloads to about 33 KB/s), I went > directly to Documentation ==> Installation Guide. Suggestion: > As one of the first Items in the Table of Contents of the > Installation Guide replicate the Table of Contents (with links) > from the Download ==> Download and Installation Instructions. > * I had forgotten how to use SHA1SUM. 'man' that night seemed > particularly obtuse. There is a good example in the Download > and Installation Guide but it took me an hour or so before I > found it. Suggestion: Installation Guide should have a clear > link to the Download and Installation Guide or just copy the > relevant paragraph with perhaps a more detailed explanation for > how to use SHA1SUM with FC5 downloads. In both, the use of > SHA1SUM should be a separate ToC item. > * I only burn .iso images to CD once every 6 to 8 months (for each > new Fedora release). I tried using the method shown in 4.1 > Preparing CD or DVD media, from the Installation Guide. I tried > every logical combination of the example used and I couldn't get > it to work. Probably some examples would have helped. Is > --device= /dev/hdc or CD-R/W or what? Is image-file.iso generic > or is it FC5-i386-disc1.iso or what? In any case, I couldn't > make it work. So I decided to try X-CD-Roast. > * It took about another hour to find 4.3.2.3 Writing ISOs with > X-CD-Roast from the Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide -- > linked through the Download and Installation Instructions. This > ISO burning Howto is excellent. > > As a separate suggestion, I have used DiskDruid to set up custom > partitions in the past, however, this time I wanted to do things > slightly different. A fuller, more detailed Help button as opposed to > Release Notes during the DiskDruid part of the installation would have > been very useful. > > In summary, all the info was there, it was just hard to find for a > newbie or someone suffering from a particularly bad brain cramp. Copying to fedora-docs list. Thanks for the feedback. Rahul
