os/doc
3
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Remove some 3.X information from FAQ.

Browse source 
Anyone still running FreeBSD from the previous century probably isn't
reading the FAQ.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Lucas 2005-05-11 20:35:54 +00:00
parent 2e65a05279
commit 0eb6fd75ba
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=24522
1 changed files with 8 additions and 22 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

30
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
View file

@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<book>
<bookinfo>
<title>Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X</title>
<title>Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X</title>
<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
</legalnotice>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X.
All entries are assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 3.0 and
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X.
All entries are assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 4.0 and
later, unless otherwise noted. If you are interested in
helping with this project, send email to the &a.doc;. The
latest version of this document is always available from the
@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>Welcome to the FreeBSD 3.X-6.X FAQ!</para>
<para>Welcome to the FreeBSD 4.X-6.X FAQ!</para>
<para>As is usual with Usenet FAQs, this document aims to cover the
most frequently asked questions concerning the FreeBSD operating
@ -1128,11 +1128,7 @@ File: +DESC (ignored)</screen>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Prior to release 3.1, you only needed one floppy image to
install FreeBSD, namely <filename>floppies/boot.flp</filename>.
However, since release 3.1 the Project has added out-of-the-box
support for a wide variety of hardware, which takes up more
space. For 3.X and later you need two floppy images:
<para>For 4.X you need two floppy images:
<filename>floppies/kernel.flp</filename> and
<filename>floppies/mfsroot.flp</filename>. These images need to
be copied onto floppies by tools like
@ -1546,14 +1542,9 @@ File: +DESC (ignored)</screen>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Prior to 3.0, FreeBSD included a utility known as
<command>bad144</command>, which automatically remapped bad
blocks. Because modern IDE drives perform this function
themselves, <command>bad144</command> has been removed from the
FreeBSD source tree. If you wish to install FreeBSD 3.0 or
later, we strongly suggest you purchase a newer disk drive. If
you do not wish to do this, you must run FreeBSD 2.X.</para>
<para>If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE
<para>You can, but it is a bad idea.</para>
<para>If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE
drive, chances are the drive is going to die very soon (the
drive's internal remapping functions are no longer sufficient
to fix the bad blocks, which means the disk is heavily
@ -1708,11 +1699,6 @@ sectors/track: 63</screen>
can check out the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/network-plip.html">PLIP
section of the Handbook</ulink> for details on parallel
port networking.</para>
<para>If you are running FreeBSD 3.X or earlier, also look at
the <ulink
url="http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/">Mobile
Computing page</ulink>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>