GPT or MBR in the Gentoo Handbook
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 18 December 2013I just committed a set of changes against the Gentoo Handbook (x86 and amd64) with the intent to have better instructions on GPT (GUID Partition Table) layout versus MBR (Master Boot Record) or MSDOS-style layout.
The part on "Preparing the Disks" saw the most changes. It starts with explaining the …
Majority of GDP documents moved to Gentoo wiki
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 10 December 2013The majority of the English gentoo documents that resided in www.gentoo.org/doc/en have now been moved to the Gentoo Wiki. All those documents have been made available in the main namespace, meaning that non-developers can continue to contribute on those articles and guides, fully in the spirit …
Moving Gentoo docs to the wiki
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 28 July 2013Slowly but surely Gentoo documentation guides are being moved to the Gentoo Wiki. Thanks to the translation support provided by the infrastructure, all "reasons" not to go forward with this have been resolved. At first, I'm focusing on documentation with open bugs that have not been picked up (usually due …
Added "predictable network interface" info into the handbook
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 07 May 2013Being long overdue - like many of our documentation-reported bugs :-( I worked on bug 466262 to update the Gentoo Handbook with information about Network Interface Naming. Of course, the installation instructions have also seen the necessary updates to refer to this change.
With some luck (read: time) I might be able …