- Add a new section "2.2 Hardware Requirements". This section
contains a Minimal Configuration subsection explaining where one can find information about the minimal requirements to install FreeBSD (releng notes) and also provides a general sum up of this information (this sum up mainly comes from the release notes, some additional details and missing arch should be added in future). - Merge the Supported Hardware section (2.10) with the new section (as a subsection), it was not really useful to talk about supported hardware at the end (or quite) of the installation chapter.
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="install-hardware">
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<title>Hardware Requirements</title>
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<sect2 id="install-hardware-minimal">
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<title>Minimal Configuration</title>
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<para>The minimal configuration to install &os; varies with the
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&os; version and the hardware architecture.</para>
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<para>Information about the minimal configuration is
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available in the Installation Notes on the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html">Release
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Information</ulink> page of the &os; web site. A sum up of
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this information is given in the following sections.
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Depending on the method you choose to install &os;, you may
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also need a floppy drive, a supported CDROM drive, and in some
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case a network adapter. This will be covered by the <xref
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linkend="install-floppies">.</para>
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<sect3>
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<title>&i386; and pc98 Architectures</title>
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<para>Both &os;/&i386 and &os;/pc98 versions require a 486 or
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better processor and at least 24 MB of RAM. You will
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need at least 150 MB of free hard drive space for the
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most minimal installation.</para>
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<note>
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<para>In case of old configurations, most of time, getting
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more RAM and more hard drive space is more important than
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getting a faster processor.</para>
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</note>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Alpha Architecture</title>
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<para>To install &os;/alpha, you will need a supported
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platform (see <xref linkend="install-hardware-supported">)
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and a dedicated disk for &os;. It is not possible to share
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a disk with another operating system at this time. This
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disk will need to be attached to a SCSI controller which is
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supported by the SRM firmware or an IDE disk assuming the
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SRM in your machine supports booting from IDE disks.</para>
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<para>You will need the SRM console firmware for your
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platform. In some cases, it is possible to switch between
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AlphaBIOS (or ARC) firmware and SRM. In others it will be
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necessary to download new firmware from the vendor's Web
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site.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>amd64 Architecture</title>
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<para>&os;/amd64 requires an &amd.athlon;64,
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&amd.athlon;64-FX, &amd.opteron; or better processor to
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run.</para>
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<para>If you have a machine based on an nVidia nForce3
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Pro-150, you <emphasis>must</emphasis> use the BIOS setup to
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disable the IO APIC. If you do not have an option to do
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this, you will likely have to disable ACPI instead. There
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are bugs in the Pro-150 chipset that we have not found a
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workaround for yet.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>&sparc64; Architecture</title>
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<para>To install &os;/&sparc64;, you will need a supported
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platform (see <xref
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linkend="install-hardware-supported">).</para>
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<para>You will need a dedicated disk for &os;/&sparc64;. It
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is not possible to share a disk with another operating
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system at this time.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="install-hardware-supported">
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<title>Supported Hardware</title>
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<para>A list of supported hardware is provided with each &os;
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release in the &os; Hardware Notes. This document can usually
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be found in a file named <filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>, in
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the top-level directory of a CDROM or FTP distribution or in
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<application>sysinstall</application>'s documentation menu.
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It lists, for a given architecture, what hardware devices are
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known to be supported by each release of &os;. Copies of the
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supported hardware list for various releases and architectures
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can also be found on the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html">Release
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Information</ulink> page of the &os; Web site.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="install-pre">
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<title>Pre-installation Tasks</title>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</table>
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<para>Once the inventory of the components in your computer is
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done, you have to check if they match the hardware
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requirements of the &os; release you want to install.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="install-supported-hardware">
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<title>Supported Hardware</title>
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<indexterm><primary>hardware</primary></indexterm>
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<para>FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI
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bus-based PCs with Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or NexGen <quote>x86</quote>
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processors, as well as a number of machines based on the Compaq Alpha
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processor. Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations,
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various SCSI controllers, PCMCIA cards, USB devices, and network and
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serial cards is also provided. FreeBSD also supports IBM's microchannel
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(MCA) bus.</para>
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<para>A list of supported hardware is provided with each FreeBSD release
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in the FreeBSD Hardware Notes. This document can usually be found in a
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file named <filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>, in the top-level directory
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of a CDROM or FTP distribution or in
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<application>sysinstall</application>'s documentation menu. It lists,
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for a given architecture, what hardware devices are known to be
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supported by each release of FreeBSD. Copies of the supported
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hardware list for various releases and architectures can also be
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found on the <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html">Release
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Information</ulink> page of the FreeBSD Web site.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="install-trouble">
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<title>Troubleshooting</title>
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