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Some corrections in the handbook

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Corrected Amazon AWS and Google cloud links
  Removed wrong man page reference
  Removed Windows XP warning
  Corrected wrong reference to the last release of FreeBSD
  Removed firefox-i18n and firefox-esr-i18n

Patch by:	carlavilla@
Approved by:	bcr@(mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23890
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Sergio Carlavilla Delgado 2020-02-29 18:06:43 +00:00
parent 732d3d7c61
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml
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@ -92,11 +92,11 @@
<listitem>
<para>Virtual Machine images available at Amazon's <link
xlink:href="https://aws.amazon.com/mp/solutions/freebsd/">AWS
xlink:href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07L6QV354">AWS
Marketplace</link>, <link
xlink:href="https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=freebsd&amp;page=1">Microsoft
Azure Marketplace</link>, and <link
xlink:href="https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-11">Google
xlink:href="https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-12">Google
Cloud Platform</link>, to run on their respective hosting
services. For more information on deploying &os; on Azure
please consult the relevant chapter in the <link
@ -242,8 +242,8 @@
the <acronym>PAE</acronym> feature enabled will detect
memory above 4&nbsp;GB and allow it to be used by the
system. However, using <acronym>PAE</acronym> places
constraints on device drivers and other features of &os;.
Refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para>
constraints on device drivers and other features of
&os;.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -327,14 +327,6 @@
implementations allow up to 128 partitions per disk,
eliminating the need for logical partitions.</para>
<warning>
<para>Some older operating systems, like &windows;&nbsp;XP,
are not compatible with the <acronym>GPT</acronym>
partition scheme. If &os; will be sharing a disk with
such an operating system, <acronym>MBR</acronym>
partitioning is required.</para>
</warning>
<para>The &os; boot loader requires either a primary or
<acronym>GPT</acronym> partition. If all of the primary or
<acronym>GPT</acronym> partitions are already in use, one
@ -421,7 +413,7 @@
those bugs affect the installation process. As these
problems are discovered and fixed, they are noted in the
&os; Errata (<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/&rel.current;R/errata.html">https://www.freebsd.org/releases/&rel.current;R/errata.html</link>)
xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/&rel121.current;R/errata.html">https://www.freebsd.org/releases/&rel121.current;R/errata.html</link>)
on the &os; web site. Check the errata before installing to
make sure that there are no problems that might affect the
installation.</para>
@ -447,9 +439,9 @@
xlink:href="&url.base;/where.html#download">www.freebsd.org/where.html#download</link>.
Each installation file's name includes the release version of
&os;, the architecture, and the type of file. For example, to
install &os; 10.2 on an &arch.amd64; system from a
install &os; 12.1 on an &arch.amd64; system from a
<acronym>DVD</acronym>, download
<filename>FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso</filename>, burn
<filename>FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso</filename>, burn
this file to a <acronym>DVD</acronym>, and boot the system
with the <acronym>DVD</acronym> inserted.</para>
@ -567,7 +559,7 @@
<acronym>USB</acronym> device on an existing &os;
system.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=<replaceable>FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img</replaceable> of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=1M conv=sync</userinput></screen>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=<replaceable>FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img</replaceable> of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=1M conv=sync</userinput></screen>
<para>If this command fails, verify that the
<acronym>USB</acronym> stick is not mounted and that the

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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install firefox-esr</userinput></screen>
<para>Localized versions are available in
<package>www/firefox-i18n</package> and
<package>www/firefox-esr-i18n</package>.</para>
<para>The Ports Collection can instead be used to compile the
desired version of <application>Firefox</application> from
source code. This example builds