Dear Chris. First, it may be easier for everyone to follow along if a working wiki is > posted. I have made some changes to the document I have which I think > improve it, but have not posted those changes anywhere that they can be > seen. I've also "wiki-ized" the document so it will be very easy to put it > on the CentOS wiki. > Thanks for your work. You might want to post the result here, first. > > I agree that the article should be in the HowTo section. As for combining > the two documents, I think it can go either way. I think that whether or > not they are combined should be determined by consensus. If I were voting, > I would vote to keep the documents separate primarily because of what I > think a HowTo should be. In my mind, a HowTo should allow someone who knows > nothing about the topic to follow a series of instructions with minimal > decision making required during the process and end with a functioning > system. Perhaps others disagree with that type of cookie-cutter document. > I think you are right on your definition what a HowTo has to be. The merged document could be placed in this section, I guess. > > The fundamental difference between the two methods has to do with the disk > partitioning scheme. The proposed document would guide the reader to have a > disk with 2 disk partitions, /boot and everything else. This method does > not require the use of /etc/crypttab. In fact, the final product from the > method of the proposed document would be analogous to adding a bios password > to the computer and all other workings of the OS remain unchanged. > This might just be an option which could be described in detail in the merged document. I don't think it makes much sense to have two docs with 'nearly' the same content. Best Regards Marcus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080829/ee255e7d/attachment-0001.htm
