diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 05eb6e6c55..cfaed52e42 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ sectors/track: 63 supplied this way to get around certain limitations in &ms-dos;) and the disk capacity is more than 1GB, use M cylinders, 63 sectors per track (not - 64), and 255 heads, where 'M' is the disk capacity in MB + 64), and 255 heads, where M is the disk capacity in MB divided by 7.844238 (!). So our example 2GB drive would have 261 cylinders, 63 sectors per track and 255 heads. @@ -3221,10 +3221,10 @@ ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 the disk drive controller card and BIOS handle the task of locking out bad sectors. This is fine for operating systems like DOS that use BIOS code to access the disk. However, - FreeBSD's disk driver does not go through BIOS, therefore a + FreeBSD's disk driver does not go through the BIOS, therefore a mechanism, bad144, exists that replaces this functionality. bad144 only works with the wd driver (which means it is not - supported in FreeBSD 4.0), it is NOT able to be used with SCSI. + supported in FreeBSD 4.0), it is not able to be used with SCSI. bad144 works by entering all bad sectors found into a special file. @@ -4007,7 +4007,7 @@ quit match and then fail due to resource conflicts. So, it disables the programmable cards first so this double probing cannot happen. It also means that it needs to know the PnP - id's for supported PnP hardware. Making this more user + ids for supported PnP hardware. Making this more user tweakable is on the TODO list. @@ -5069,7 +5069,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i8254 consumed by the FreeBSD sources and additional maintenance work. Thus, it is much easier for both the developers and users to keep CVSup as a separate port, which can be easily installed as - a package bundled on the FreeBSD installation CD's. + a package bundled on the FreeBSD installation CDs. @@ -5207,7 +5207,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i8254 A. Welsh, available at . After timidity++ has been installed properly, midi files may - be converted to wav's with the following command + be converted to wav files with the following command line: &prompt.user; timidity -Ow -s 44100 -o /tmp/juke/01.wav 01.mid @@ -5410,11 +5410,11 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr - What is 'kern.quantum'? + What is kern.quantum? - kern.quantum is the maximum number of + kern.quantum is the maximum number of ticks a process can run without being preempted. It is specific to the 4BSD scheduler, so you can use its presence or absence to determine which scheduler is in @@ -6624,7 +6624,7 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging - What other mail-server software can I use, instead of + What other mail-server software can I use instead of Sendmail? @@ -6634,12 +6634,12 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance, an MTA installed from the ports). - There are various alternative MTA's in the ports tree + There are various alternative MTAs in the ports tree already, with mail/exim, mail/postfix, mail/qmail, mail/zmailer, being some of the + role="package">mail/qmail, and mail/zmailer being some of the most popular choices. Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many @@ -6649,7 +6649,7 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging Qmail? in the mailing lists. If you do feel like asking, first check the mailing list archives. The advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the - available MTA's have already been discussed a few + available MTAs have already been discussed a few times. @@ -6660,7 +6660,7 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging do I do? - Do not Panic! Simply restart the system, type + Do not panic! Simply restart the system, type boot -s at the Boot: prompt (just -s for FreeBSD releases before 3.2) to enter Single User mode. At the question about the shell to use, @@ -6682,8 +6682,8 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging If you are using syscons (the default console driver) - build and install a new kernel with the following - option. + build and install a new kernel with the + line options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT @@ -7099,7 +7099,7 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging where they maintain their data, but can often be immediately reused (either with their old association, or reused with a new association.) There can be certain - immediate transition from active to 'cache' state if the + immediate transitions from active to cache state if the page is known to be clean (unmodified), but that transition is a matter of policy, depending upon the algorithm choice of the VM system @@ -7118,24 +7118,24 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging Pages are most often written to disk (sort of a VM - sync) when they are in the 'inactive' state, but 'active' + sync) when they are in the inactive state, but active pages can also be synced (but requires the availability of certain CPU features.) This depends upon - the CPU tracking of the 'modified' bit being available, + the CPU tracking of the modified bit being available, and in certain situations there can be an advantage for a block of VM pages to be synced, whether they are active or inactive. In most common cases, it is best to think of - the 'inactive' queue to be a queue of relatively unused + the inactive queue to be a queue of relatively unused pages that might or might not be in the process of being - written to disk. 'Cached' pages are already 'synced', not + written to disk. Cached pages are already synced, not mapped, but available for immediate process use with their old association or with a new association. Free pages are available at interrupt level, but cached or free pages can - be used at process state for reuse. Cache pages aren't + be used at process state for reuse. Cache pages are not adequately locked to be available at interrupt level. - There are some other flags (e.g. Busy flag or busy + There are some other flags (e.g., busy flag or busy count) that might modify some of the rules that I described. @@ -8340,7 +8340,7 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Workplace Nop - Typically, people who ask this question have two PC's + Typically, people who ask this question have two PCs at home, one with FreeBSD and one with some version of &windows; the idea is to use the FreeBSD box to connect to the Internet and then be able to access the Internet from @@ -8959,7 +8959,7 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Workplace Nop - I've just installed CVSup but trying to execute it + I have just installed CVSup but trying to execute it produces errors. What is wrong? @@ -11741,7 +11741,7 @@ raisechar=^^ it is part of standard practise to send data to the screen of interesting variety to keep all the pixies that make up your picture happy. Screen pixies (commonly mis-typed or - re-named as 'pixels') are categorised by the type of hat + re-named as pixels are categorised by the type of hat they wear (red, green or blue) and will hide or appear (thereby showing the colour of their hat) whenever they receive a little piece of food. Video cards turn data into