Newbie Documentation

[Lehofer, Meinhard]

Giovanni Sce schrieb:

>This is the clean list from the ubuntu-user list of a possible
>structure for the section.
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>I would say, can we put it in a new wiki page and in case apport
>modifications there? It is much cleaner than doing it via email.
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I would suggest creating a Newbie FAQ project page in the Community area 
of the wiki. All the different language Documentations are there, so I 
guess our Special Interest Group documentation fits in well. I am, 
however, a bit anxious to interfere with the wiki structure without some 
feedback from the documentation team, especially John.

I have already created a personal account and am ready to post some 
initial information about the newbie FAQ into the wiki.

>Do we need to keep in account since the beginning of how to transform
>the end result in online (desktop) help system? (I hope that can
>be done at the end, when we are happy with the content).
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>1. Getting a Ubuntu CD
>        a. Downloading & Burning ("What is an ISO image file?")
>        b. Ordering from Canonical
>2. Pre-installation Preparations - Things You Can Do / Read About While
>Waiting for Download to Finish
>        a. What is Dual Boot? Should I Dual Boot?
>        b. Backing-up Data
>        c. Identifying Your Hardware (taking notes on type of mouse, monitor
>resolution, IP address and etc)
>        d. Defragmenting
>        e. What is A Partition (Basic)?
>        f. Resizing Partition
>        g. What is Boot Order & How To Change Boot Order? (booting from CD)
>3. Installing Ubuntu
>        a. Types of installation
>        b. Revisiting Partition (a bit more in-depth compared than the
>previous FAQ on partition)
>        c. GRUB, MBR, Dual Boot and etc.
>        d. IP address, Gateway, DNS and etc.
>        e. What is Root? Setting up user & password
>        f. Updating from the internet
>4. First time booting into Ubuntu
>        a. Familiarising with GNOME
>                I. Where is my Control Panel, My Computer and etc?
>                II. Controlling Menus and "Taskbar"
>                III. Theme
>        b. Software Installation
>                I. Apt-get & Synaptic
>                II. How to Handle Other Files (.bin or .gz)
>        c. Configuring Applications
>                I. Evolution - How to import inbox / how to setup POP
>                II. OpenOffice.org - How to open, save or convert MS Office
>files
>                III. GAIM - Setting up for MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and
>etc.
>        d. Where's My "C:/Program Files?" / Intro to Linux filesystem
>        e. Who Is Sudo?
>        f. Loging out / Shutting down
>5. For those newbies who wants to learn more
>        a. Mounting
>                I. What is mounting?
>                II. How to mount NTFS drive, cd-drive, floppy?
>        b. Permission
>                I. What is permission?
>                II. How to change permission?
>        c. Safe Computing
>                I. What approriate permission to give
>                II. Danger of doing things in Root
>        d. Intro to Command Line Interface
>                I. For those who are familliar with DOS Prompt (Linux equivalent
>for DIR, copy, delete and etc)
>                II. Basic commands for the newbies
>6. Looking for help
>        a. List of Website, Forums, IRC channels, local Ubuntu Linux User
>Group
>        b. Forum & Chatting ethics
>        c. How to take Screenshot
>        d. List of Frequently use Terms & Phrases (Daemon, Module, Config
>File, Eth0, Runlevel
>7. Hardware / Driver
>        Links to Hardware Compatibility List website
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