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Re: Hesiod request updates

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Tue Oct 3 20:30:13 2000

Message-Id: <200010040030.UAA11772@HOTASS-1.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 23:35:02 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:30:07 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>


> How will non-students save that URL for when the install is done, and
> they're ready to register for real?  Or is it ok for us to assume that
> people
> will have already seen the URL before fetching the install?  Or is it ok
> for olc and the Help desk to teach a raft of people how they should have
> registered when they finally notice they're not getting updates?

We encourage people to print out and have with them the one-sheet guide
to installing.  I've been updating it for the new installer, and it
mentions that URL at least once, along with a bit of explaination as to
why you should register.

The latest version of the one-sheet is at
  /afs/sipb/project/doc/ilinux/linux-net-install/rh-net-install
(not the release location)
I encourage anyone who feels like it to check it out and make
changes/corrections, and/or to offer constructive criticism.

There's not much we can do to make users actually read the documentation,
but...

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