[Bug 450331] New: lack of documentation on restoring from bare-metal (UUID problem)
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450331
Summary: lack of documentation on restoring from bare-metal (UUID
problem)
Product: Fedora Documentation
Version: devel
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: low
Component: docs-requests
AssignedTo: kwade(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: czar(a)acm.org
QAContact: stickster(a)gmail.com
CC: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com
Description of problem:
ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449299
There is a lack of documentation on restoring a system from bare metal. I have
found (see reference) that restore the root ("/") is not as simple as as just
executing the restore command when running in rescue mode.
With the current emphasis being place on use of UUIDs in both Fedora and RHEL,
the whole business of UUIDs need to be better documented.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 9
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11 years
[Bug 479470] New: cobbler kssendmac and breed suse
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Summary: cobbler kssendmac and breed suse
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479470
Summary: cobbler kssendmac and breed suse
Product: Fedora Hosted Projects
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: low
Component: Deployment_Guide
AssignedTo: mhideo(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: quenzler(a)us.ibm.com
QAContact: rlerch(a)redhat.com
CC: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com
Classification: Fedora
Target Release: ---
Description of problem:
breed = suse
/boot/grub/menu.lst contains kssendmac
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cobbler-1.2.9-1.fc9.noarch
How reproducible:
Install a SuSE client
Actual results:
kssendmac exists as a boot parameter on a SuSE client
Expected results:
No kssendmac boot parameter
Additional info:
Find a way to avoid adding kssendmac to the kernel_options string if it's not
applicable to the breed.
Hack (since I'm only installing SuSE clients):
# diff utils.py utils.py.ori
478,479c478,479
< # if len(kernel_txt) < 244:
< # results["kernel_options"]["kssendmac"] = None
---
> if len(kernel_txt) < 244:
> results["kernel_options"]["kssendmac"] = None
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14 years, 8 months
[Fedora Release Notes] #29: Remove whitespace trigger ugly PDF formatting
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#29: Remove whitespace trigger ugly PDF formatting
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Reporter: quaid | Owner: quaid
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: RC-ready
Component: Content | Version: 10
Keywords: |
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Just in case we cannot get this fixed in the PDF toolchain, we need to
remove all the leading whitespace for tags that display CDATA or other
content verbatim.
This could be done as part of a general run of a tool such as docbook-lint
or xmlformat. Before doing that, we need to assess the risk of the tool
chaining line numbers and causing translation stats to go fuzzy.
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14 years, 11 months
Re: Linux Start Pack Review
by A. Mani
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Christos Bacharakis <cmpahar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I read over the Linux Start Pack at
>> http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack .
>> This magazine is published by Linux Format.
>>
> What is a user guide? Maybe some docs putted and linked together in a form
> which is more friendly with screenshots and tips?
> I think there is a huge power at Docs and L10n project and the material is
> really good. So, for start we can try to put together all the stuff and
> reconfigure it (screenshots, tips) in a more "user friendly" way.
> If we have good written, user friendly docs in many languages we don't have
> to do something from scratch.
There is a big difference between a user guide for people new to Linux
and PCs, documentation for others
and a starter pack for migrating users from other OSs. As it is the
user guide has plenty of references to 'things in M$Windows'.
I think it will be a better idea to transfer those to a starter pack.
The user guide can then be used by people new to Linux and PCs
...or should we split the latter function as well?
>> It would be large project but worthwhile for getting
>> the word out about Fedora.
>
>
> Small touches, small entries and the guide will be ready on a sec! :)
Many parts require modification. It is biased towards Gnome.
Best
A. Mani
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15 years, 1 month
Linux Start Pack Review
by Kirk
I read over the Linux Start Pack at
http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack .
This magazine is published by Linux Format.
I liked it because its very user-friendly, therefore, a good sales tool
for people thinking about switching from Windows to Linux. The
majority of the article is a comprehensive User Guide. The magazine
came with a Live CD for Ubuntu so folks could follow along with the user
guide and really get a feel for Linux and the distro. The article is 130
pages with about 85% - 90% being the user guide.
We should consider doing something like this when we can. We
could follow a similar format and put it out in magazine form, if we
have the resources, put it on the web, or both.
It would be large project but worthwhile for getting
the word out about Fedora.
Browse through it if you get a chance and see what you think.
-Kirk
15 years, 1 month
Install Guide now in Publican
by Ruediger Landmann
Hey all,
just letting you know that the Installation Guide is now fully
"Publicanized".
I can confirm that every language version of the guide builds in html,
html-single, and PDF, with only one exception -- Chinese Simplified. I
/can/ confirm that Chinese Simplified builds in html and html-single,
but I haven't been able to confirm that it builds in PDF [1].
RPM building also works.
I've placed the publicanized version of the guide in the master branch
of the repo, and the f10 version in its own branch.
There are small structural changes between the f10 version of the files
and the files in the current master branch, specifically:
* the Guide now includes Publican's standard Preface, which explains the
typographic conventions used in the document
* by default, Publican places the "Feedback" section in the Preface, so
I've moved it there from its previous position in the "Introduction"
* the "Colophon" wasn't really a colophon; I've renamed it to
"Contributors and production methods", which is what it actually
contains. The "Contributors" section within this now includes a full
list of the community translators who have worked on the guide (I drew
these from the translation files).
* the Tamil translation file didn't actually contain any translations;
I've removed it for the moment.
* I've removed most of the entities that were used in the document; not
only were they a real mess, but they were going to create significant
problems when positioning the guide upstream of the RHEL Installation Guide
* I've added country codes to folders containing translation files for
certain languages, so Publican can take advantage of the Common Content
already built into Publican for these languages. Note that these folders
are named according to the IETF RFC 4646 standard that XML uses for
language and country codes, not the GNU hybrid of "ISO 639-2 language
code and two-letter ISO 3166 country code separated by an underscore".
Publican expects to see the RFC 4646 version. I'm aware that the
inclusion of a country code is a contentious area for some translators,
and have filed a bug about this [2]. Note that this issue doesn't
presently affect languages that we don't have any Common Content for,
but I've also renamed the Serbian-with-Latin-alphabet folder in
compliance with RFC 4646.
Some urgent action is now needed on the localization front:
* f10 needs to be presented as a valid branch in the Transifex system;
and the separate .po files of the Publicanized version need to be made
available to translators
* Publican includes two "Common Content" files that need translation
into languages that Red Hat doesn't support. They are "Conventions"
(which explains the document conventions) and "Feedback" [3]. The great
news here is that once these have been translated into any given
language, they will be available for /all/ Publicanized Fedora docs
produced in that language, since the .po files can be built into the
Fedora brand that installs with Publican. I've generated .pot files for
these three sections. Other than approaching translators directly, is
there another way to bring these to community attention?
On the RPM front:
* What needs to happen to get an RPM of this document approved for
inclusion in Fedora?
What I'm doing next:
* working out how content can be merged between the Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Installation Guides, which will allow the Fedora
version to be positioned upstream
Cheers
Rudi
[1] on my machine, the build process finishes successfully and generates
a PDF file, but the body text contains nothing but whitespace (although
the chapter and section headings render correctly). I suspect this is
simply a problem on my machine, however, and haven't tested it on anyone
else's yet.
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487256
[3] the Installation Guide doesn't use the Common "Feedback" section –
it has its own, custom "Feedback" section instead. We still need to get
this translated into as many languages as possible ASAP, both for the
sake of other Fedora Docs, and in case we want future versions of the
Installation Guide to line up with what's in the docs that /are/ using
the standard "Feedback" section.
15 years, 1 month
Linux Starter Pack
by Kirk
I read over the Linux Start Pack at
http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack .
This magazine is published by Linux Format.
I liked it because its very user-friendly, therefore, a good sales tool
for people thinking about switching from Windows to Linux. The
majority of the article is a comprehensive User Guide. The magazine
came with a Live CD for Ubuntu so folks could follow along with the user
guide and really get a feel for Linux and the distro. The article is 130
pages with about 85% - 90% being the user guide.
We should consider doing something like this when we can. We
could follow a similar format and put it out in magazine form, if we
have the resources, put it on the web, or both.
It would be large project but worthwhile for getting
the word out about Fedora.
Browse through it if you get a chance and see what you think.
-Kirk
15 years, 1 month
Docs team meeting 2009-02-25 summary
by Karsten Wade
Attendees
=========
John J. McDonough (jjmcd)
Kirk Ziegler (kirkz)
Karsten Wade (quaid)
Paul W. Frields (stickster)
Susan Lauber (laubersm)
Matthew Daniels (danielsmw)
Simon Birtwistle (itbegins_)
Toshio Kuratomi (abadger1999)
IRC log
=======
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Docs_IRC_log_20090225
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-February/msg00170.html
Summary
=======
* New meeting time
* 0000 UTC Thu. == 1600 PST Wed. == 1900 EST Wed. == 1000 BNE Thu.
* Starting 05 March 0000 UTC (04 March)
* Need to confirm that this can work for ryanlerch
* FIXED TIME -- Does not change with daylight savings time in a few
weeks
* Feature freeze is next week
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project
* Progress made on [[Docs Project]]
* The file docsproject.psv was cleaned and found useful
* More work to be done, not difficult just tedious
** Help wanted
* A clean PSV == potentially good wikibot results
* wikibot would have been a big tedium breaker
** Need wikibot for wider adoption of page renaming
* Package maintainer and draft pages are proceeding
* Marketing is working on their pages, also a focus on [[*Events]]
by StabbyMc (Scott McBrien)
* CMS packaging is moving ahead, ke4qqq needs to update his review
request
* itbegins may use some help with theme/CSS finishing; taking it
to fedora-websites-list if he needs it
* Packaging needed to reinstall test instance
* itbegins still needs to do the docs build scripts
* Docs can potentially start loading content and structure, have it
appear live in the final production instance
* Release notes
* F10 update help needed; jjmcd to work with quaid on CVS check-in
issues
* Recruitment plan for new beat writers?
** 18 March is the next release team meeting, good time to ask for
beat help where we've already tried other methods
15 years, 1 month
