Bug 168588

Summary:	documentation is not very convenient or explanatory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Frederick Flintstone <dadave>
Component:	rhl-ig-as-x86	Assignee:	Don Domingo <ddomingo>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	John Ha <jha>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	adstrong
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Description Frederick Flintstone 2005-09-17 16:57:33 UTC

Description of problem:
In section 3 of the installation guide for rh e l v.4, it gives a list of about
20 things that folks are supposed to go off and research.. what type of mouse 
do i have? what's my sound card? etc. etc. 
Why not just provide a utility that goes and grabs it all and writes it to a 
file so folks don't have to know about 30 things and how to go dig for all of 
it.  At least document how to go get it.

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-09-18 16:52:52 UTC

(Fixing component.)

Comment 3 Michael Hideo 2007-10-23 02:51:18 UTC

Removing automation notification

Comment 4 Michael Hideo 2008-01-22 04:36:28 UTC

Moving to Don

Comment 5 Don Domingo 2008-01-25 06:15:47 UTC

the section in question is the "System Requirements Table", which is recommended
to be filled up *before* installation.

closing this as NOTABUG. the methods through which a user can identify system
components pre-installation are too numerous and trivial to list (e.g. asking
your vendor, reading the box, etc), and beyond the scope of this book.