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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview/chapter.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
      ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
      POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
-     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview/chapter.sgml,v 1.5 2000/07/07 18:38:23 dannyboy Exp $
+     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview/chapter.sgml,v 1.6 2001/04/17 16:16:18 nik Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="overview">
@@ -166,7 +166,99 @@ Every one is welcome to join the FDP.  There is no minimum
 	  FreeBSD Ports system or &man.pkg.add.1;.</para>
       </listitem>                                                              
     </itemizedlist>                                                            
-  </sect1>      
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1>
+    <title>Quick Start</title>
+
+    <para>If you just want to get going, and feel confident you can pick
+      things up as you go along, follow these instructions.</para>
+
+    <procedure>
+      <step>
+	<para>Install the <filename>textproc/docproj</filename>
+	  meta-port.</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>make JADETEX=no install</userinput></screen>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+	<para>Get a local copy of the FreeBSD <filename>doc</filename> tree.
+	  Either use CVSup in <literal>checkout</literal> mode to do this, or
+	  get a full copy of the CVS repository locally.</para>
+
+	<para>If you have the CVS repository locally then as a minimum you
+	  will need to checkout the <filename>doc/share</filename>, and
+	  <filename>doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share</filename>
+	  directories.</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cvs checkout doc/share</userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share</userinput></screen>
+
+	<para>If you have plenty of disk space then you could check out
+	  everything.</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cvs checkout doc</userinput></screen>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+	<para>If you are preparing a change to an existing book or article,
+	  check it out of the repository as necessary.  If you are planning on
+	  contributing a new book or article then use an existing one as a
+	  guide.</para>
+
+	<para>For example, if you want to contribute a new article about
+	  setting up a VPN between FreeBSD and Windows 2000 you might do the
+	  following.</para>
+
+	<procedure>
+	  <step>
+	    <para>Check out the <filename>articles</filename>
+	      directory.</para>
+
+	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles</userinput></screen>
+	  </step>
+
+	  <step>
+	    <para>Copy an existing article to use as a template.  In this
+	      case, you have decided that your new article belongs in a
+	      directory called <filename>vpn-w2k</filename>.</para>
+
+	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles</userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>cp -r committers-guide vpn-w2k</userinput></screen>
+	  </step>
+	</procedure>
+
+	<para>If you wanted to edit an existing document, such as the the FAQ,
+	  which is in <filename>doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq</filename> you
+	  would check it out of the repository like this.</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq</userinput></screen>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+	<para>Edit the <filename>.sgml</filename> files using your editor of
+	  choice.</para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+	<para>Test the markup using the <maketarget>lint</maketarget> target,
+	  and convert the document to other formats for review.</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>make lint</userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>make FORMAT=<replaceable>format</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+	<para>Where <replaceable>format</replaceable> is one of
+	  <literal>html</literal>, <literal>html-split</literal>,
+	  <literal>txt</literal>, or <literal>rtf</literal></para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+	<para>Submit your changes using &man.send-pr.1;.</para>
+      </step>
+    </procedure>
+  </sect1>
 </chapter>
 
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