Bug 20184 - IMHO, availability page sends people to wrong Handbook chapter
Summary: IMHO, availability page sends people to wrong Handbook chapter
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: misc (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
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Reported: 2000-07-25 23:50 UTC by bobj
Modified: 2000-07-26 18:24 UTC (History)
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Description bobj 2000-07-25 23:50:01 UTC
http://www.freebsd.org/availability.html says

    FreeBSD can be downloaded over the Internet for free, using a 
    variety of different protocols (FTP, CVS, AFS, and more). If 
    bandwidth is expensive for you then it can also be purchased 
    on CDROM from a variety of vendors.

    For more information, please see the Handbook Chapter on 
    obtaining FreeBSD.

Where the last part is a link to the Handbook _Appendix_ on where to 
obtain FreeBSD.

Dropping someone into this page without context may lead to questions 
like "Which distfiles do I need to download." or "After 20 hours of 
work, I downloaded the distfiles I think I need, now how do I 
install them?"

I think it would be better to change this to a link to the chapter 
on Installing FreeBSD.

Fix: 

In availability.html:

1) Change the displayed text of the link from
   "Handbook Chapter on obtaining FreeBSD"
   to 
   "Handbook Chapter on Installing FreeBSD".

2) Change the link to point to handbook/install.html
How-To-Repeat: View http://www.freebsd.org/availability.html and click on the 
"Handbook Chapter on obtaining FreeBSD" link.

Note that the resulting page explains WHERE to get FreeBSD, but 
not HOW one should go about getting it most efficiently.
Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-26 10:21:53 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

The -doc people can decide what to do with this.
Comment 2 Jim Mock freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-26 18:24:22 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks!