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"effective at improving performance" is correct in English.
"issues with the installation" is vague, reworded.
Expand/clarify BIOS boot menu information.
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Simplify Introducing bsdinstall.
Expand/clarify mirror site description choice.
Attempt to remove unnecessary instances of "the" and "you".
"Booting" is used in this doc more than "restarting".
Add link to network information.
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<note>
<para>On old computers, increasing RAM and hard drive space
is usually more effective to improving performance than
is usually more effective at improving performance than
installing a faster processor.</para>
</note>
</sect3>
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</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<sect2 id="bsdinstall-collect-network-information">
<title>Collect Network Information</title>
<para>Some &os; installation methods need a network connection to
@ -342,6 +342,8 @@
administrator or service provider:</para>
<orderedlist>
<title>Network Information</title>
<listitem>
<para><acronym role="Internet Protocol">IP</acronym> address</para>
</listitem>
@ -375,8 +377,8 @@
fixed, they are noted in the <ulink
url="&url.base;/releases/9.0R/errata.html">
FreeBSD Errata</ulink> on the &os; web site. Check the errata
before installing to make sure that there are no issues with
the installation.</para>
before installing to make sure that there are no problems that
might affect the installation.</para>
<para>Information and errata for all the releases can be found on
the <ulink url="&url.base;/releases/index.html">release
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<step>
<para>Configure your machine to boot from either the CDROM
or from USB, depending on the media being used for the
installation. This can usually either be done from the
<acronym role="Basic Input/Output System">BIOS</acronym> setup
menu, or often by pressing F11 or another key (Often called
"Boot Selection" or similar) during the
<acronym role="Basic Input/Output System">BIOS</acronym>
<acronym role="Power-On Self Test">POST</acronym>.
installation. <acronym role="Basic Input/Output
System">BIOS</acronym> configurations allow the selection
of a specific boot device. Most systems also provide for
selecting a boot device during startup, typically by
pressing <keycap>F10</keycap>, <keycap>F11</keycap>,
<keycap>F12</keycap>, or <keycap>Escape</keycap>.</para>
</step>
<step>
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\</screen>
<step>
<para>Regrdless of wether the system was booted from CDROM or USB
stick, the boot process will then get to the &os; boot loader
menu:</para>
<para>The &os; boot loader is displayed:</para>
<figure id="bsdinstall-boot-loader-menu">
<title>&os; Boot Loader Menu</title>
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</sect1>
<sect1 id="using-bsdinstall">
<title>Introducing BSDinstall</title>
<para>The <application>bsdinstall</application> utility is the installation
application provided by the &os; Project. It is text based and is
divided into a number of menus and screens that you can use to
configure and control the installation process.</para>
<title>Introducing <application>bsdinstall</application></title>
<para><application>bsdinstall</application> is a text-based installation
application used to install and configure &os;.</para>
<para>The <application>bsdinstall</application> menu system is controlled
by the arrow keys, <keycap>Enter</keycap>, <keycap>Tab</keycap>,
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</figure>
<para>After the network connection has been configured as shown in
<xref linkend="bsdinstall-config-network-dev">, choose a mirror
site that is close to your location.</para>
<xref linkend="bsdinstall-config-network-dev">, a mirror site is
selected. Mirror sites cache copies of the &os; files. Choose a
mirror site located in the same region of the world as the
computer on which &os; is being installed. Files can be retrieved
more quickly when the mirror is close to the target computer, and
installation time will be reduced.</para>
<figure id="bsdinstall-netinstall-mirror">
<title>Choosing a Mirror</title>
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</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>The installation will continue as if the installation files
<para>Installation will continue as if the installation files
were located on local media.</para> </sect1>
<sect1 id="bsdinstall-partitioning">
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will offer the chance to exit the installer, with no changes
being made to the hard drive.</para>
<para>The installation time will vary depending on the distributions
chosen, installation media, and the speed of the computer.
<para>Installation time will vary depending on the distributions
chosen, installation media, and speed of the computer.
There will be a series of
messages displayed indicating installation progress.</para>
messages displayed indicating progress.</para>
<para>Firstly, the installer will write the partitions to the
disk, and perform a <command>newfs</command> to initialise the
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<para>Configuration of various options follows a successful
installation of &os;. An option can be configured by re-entering the
configuration options from the final menu before restarting into
configuration options from the final menu before booting into
the newly installed &os; system.</para>
<sect2 id="bsdinstall-post-root">
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<title>Configuring Network Interfaces</title>
<note>
<para>If the network configuration has already been done as part of
a <emphasis>bootonly</emphasis> installation, it will be
skipped during post-installation configuration.</para>
<para>Network configuration will be skipped if it has already
been done as part of a <emphasis>bootonly</emphasis>
installation.</para>
</note>
<para>Choose the network interface to be used.</para>
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</firstterm> will automatically configure the
network interface correctly, and is the preferred method.
<firstterm>Static</firstterm> configuration requires manual
entry of the network information.</para>
entry of network information.</para>
<note>
<para>Do not enter random network information, as it will not work.
Your network administrator or service provider should provide
you with the network information needed.</para>
<para>Do not enter random network information, as it will not
work. Obtain the information shown in <xref
linkend="bsdinstall-collect-network-information"> from
the network administrator or service provider.</para>
</note>
<sect4 id="bsdinstall-net-ipv4-dhcp-config">
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<firstterm><acronym role="StateLess Address AutoConfiguration">SLAAC</acronym>
</firstterm>, or <emphasis>StateLess Address AutoConfiguration</emphasis>,
will automatically configure the network interface correctly.
<firstterm>Static</firstterm> configuration requires manual entry of
the network information.</para>
<firstterm>Static</firstterm> configuration requires manual
entry of network information.</para>
<sect4 id="bsdinstall-net-ipv6-slaac-config">
<title>IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration</title>
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<para>Select <guibutton>[&nbsp;Yes&nbsp;]</guibutton>
or <guibutton>[&nbsp;No&nbsp;]</guibutton> according to how the
machine's clock is configured and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>.
If you are unsure on what to select, select
<guibutton>[&nbsp;No&nbsp;]</guibutton> since that is most common.
</para>
If you don't know whether the system uses UTC or local time,
select <guibutton>[&nbsp;No&nbsp;]</guibutton> to choose the
more commonly-used local time.</para>
<figure id="bsdinstall-timezone-region">
<title>Select a Region</title>
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<literal>no</literal> to finish adding users and continue the
installation.</para>
<para>For more information on how to add users and user management,
<xref linkend="users"> contains more detailed information.</para>
<para>For more information on adding users and user management,
see <xref linkend="users">.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="bsdinstall-final-conf">
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<para>Generating the RSA and DSA keys may take some time on slower
machines. This happens only on the initial boot-up of a new
installation if <application>sshd</application> is set up to start.
Subsequent boots will be faster.</para>
installation, and only if <application>sshd</application> is set
to start automatically. Subsequent boots will be faster.</para>
<para>&os; does not install graphical environments by default, but
many are available. See <xref linkend="x11"> for more