I'm a part of the install documentation team for Solaris. As a technical writing intern, my job is far less, well, technical, than many of those here. The nuts and bolts and bits and bytes are a bit intimidating, but I'm excited for the challenge.
Clay, my neighbor two doors down, says that I'm in an ideal position to learn this stuff from the floor up. He's right. I just have to climb a lot of stairs. I'm taking a course on UNIX tomorrow, and it won't be my last. The structure of the online components should keep it fun.
I think that it makes sense to develop more and more of these materials. Jonathon Schwartz, please take note!