Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-30 Thread hogan
> out I haven't been bothered to set up my Olivetti JP190 yet (indeed, > I haven't even looked whether it is supported). I suspect the Olivetti may be a rebated lexmark.

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-30 Thread Matthias Wieser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I so rarely print things > out I haven't been bothered to set up my Olivetti JP190 yet Here is probably the best link to start out for printing: www.linuxprinting.org Ciao, mattHias -- __ _ __ * /\_/\ \ \_/ \_/ / *

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-30 Thread garyjones
On 28 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Younie) wrote: > Matthias Wieser wrote: > > now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter > > your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the > > parts your really need. > > It's a great idea. At a minimum so

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-29 Thread Matthias Wieser
Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I'd just like to pledge my support for this, and if you need any help then > please > do get in touch! Thank you for your offer :-) I opened a sourceforge project: mydebman I would be glad to see you join :-) > > Yes, the database structure must be very very extensib

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
I'd just like to pledge my support for this, and if you need any help then please do get in touch! On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:45:35AM +1100, hogan wrote: > > the boot floppy disk)). Most documents found do not suite debian to > > 100%, that would not be the case in that generator. > ... > > and a

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Rick Younie
Matthias Wieser wrote: > > I was looking for a information to setup my whole computer but I could > only find parts of it all all. > > That is why I looked how there could be a way how user can share > important information, without getting some questions asked 1 times > only because there is

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Matthias Wieser
hogan wrote: > > Also your point about "most documents found do not suite (sic) debian to 100%" > is true - however to discard this information is not good - having the > facility to describe it as "not 100% suitable for debian but worth reading" in > the event that someone hasn't yet written a deb

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread hogan
> the boot floppy disk)). Most documents found do not suite debian to > 100%, that would not be the case in that generator. ... > and as you said is you said, the scripts searching for valid information > is pretty easy, but the structure of the database will have the most > importance for the whol

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Matthias Wieser
> So who is going to contribute and maintain it? My hope is that debian user, who have already set up the system, can provide some information how they did it. It is true, there has to be some more information, how the system is set up and what kernel he is using. Someone using the manual should h

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Hans
So who is going to contribute and maintain it? I'm not talking about the wrapper, but the hardware info. I can put together a description on how to install the ISA SB64AWE, from pnpconf to groupsetting. But now 2.4 is out which does isa differently, so who is responsible for updating the entry for

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:13:27AM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter > your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the > parts you really need. > It would work like that: People who have already set up their

re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-26 Thread James Lindenschmidt
this is a great idea... Matthias Weiser spoke thusly: >now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter >your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the >parts your really need. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-26 Thread Tudor Oprea
I think this would be a useful thing to implement... I'd be glad to help with any coding or design that needs to be done. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Matthias Wieser wrote: > I was looking for a information to setup my whole computer but I could > only find parts of it all all

wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-26 Thread Matthias Wieser
I was looking for a information to setup my whole computer but I could only find parts of it all all. That is why I looked how there could be a way how user can share important information, without getting some questions asked 1 times only because there is no real Nr 1. place that is easily to