diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 6d94cc96ad..0dbc416d11 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ - Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X + Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X The FreeBSD Documentation Project @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ - 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 + 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 @@ Introduction - Welcome to the FreeBSD 3.X-6.X FAQ! + Welcome to the FreeBSD 4.X-6.X FAQ! 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) - Prior to release 3.1, you only needed one floppy image to - install FreeBSD, namely floppies/boot.flp. - 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: + For 4.X you need two floppy images: floppies/kernel.flp and floppies/mfsroot.flp. These images need to be copied onto floppies by tools like @@ -1546,14 +1542,9 @@ File: +DESC (ignored) - Prior to 3.0, FreeBSD included a utility known as - bad144, which automatically remapped bad - blocks. Because modern IDE drives perform this function - themselves, bad144 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. - If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE + You can, but it is a bad idea. + + 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 can check out the PLIP section of the Handbook for details on parallel port networking. - - If you are running FreeBSD 3.X or earlier, also look at - the Mobile - Computing page.