From ffdf303d7caaccbb81e3b210725c493805fa1d4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ceri Davies Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:41:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Fix some typos - Change one instance of "CDROMS" to "CDROMs" in line with the rest of the doc - Change one instance of "ROMS" to "ROMs" in line with the rest of the doc Approved by: murray --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 153ec9fa28..b116834fb8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ sectors/track: 63 controlled by the passwd_format login capability in /etc/login.conf, which takes values of either des (if available) or md5. - See the &man.login.conf.5; manpage for more information about login + See the &man.login.conf.5; manual page for more information about login capabilities. @@ -2909,7 +2909,7 @@ diff -u -r1.60.2.1 -r1.60.2.2 This is only for sound! This driver does not support CDROMs, SCSI or joysticks on these cards, except for the SoundBlaster. The SoundBlaster SCSI interface and some - non-SCSI CDROMS are supported, but you cannot boot off this + non-SCSI CDROMs are supported, but you cannot boot off this device. @@ -3283,7 +3283,7 @@ ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 one is the BIOS chip and the other is the Firmware chip. FreeBSD does not care what version of BIOS chip you have but it does care about what version of firmware chip. Buslogic will - send upgrade ROMS out if you call their tech support dept. The + send upgrade ROMs out if you call their tech support dept. The BIOS and Firmware chips are shipped as a matched pair. You must have the most current Firmware ROM in your adapter card for your hardware revision. @@ -4397,7 +4397,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i8254 least expensive ELF Motif 2.1.20 distribution for FreeBSD (either i386 or Alpha). - There are two distributions, the developement + There are two distributions, the development edition and the runtime edition (for much less). These distributions includes: @@ -4934,7 +4934,7 @@ crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 41, 1 Oct 15 22:14 spx If you want to install the latest compat22 libraries whenever you run make world, edit /etc/make.conf to include - COMPAT22=YES. Old compatability + COMPAT22=YES. Old compatibility libraries change rarely, if ever, so this is not generally needed. @@ -5347,7 +5347,7 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr The installation procedure allows you to chose two different methods in partitioning your - harddisk(s). The default way makes it compatible with other + hard disk(s). The default way makes it compatible with other operating systems on the same machine, by using fdisk table entries (called slices in FreeBSD), with a FreeBSD slice that employs partitions of its own. Optionally, @@ -5363,8 +5363,8 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr in contact with such a disk, or even worse, they might damage the BSD bootstrap without even asking or notifying you. In addition, the dangerously dedicated disk's - layout is known to confuse many BIOSsen, including those from - AWARD (eg. as found in HP Netserver and Micronics systems as + layout is known to confuse many BIOSes, including those from + AWARD (e.g. as found in HP Netserver and Micronics systems as well as many others) and Symbios/NCR (for the popular 53C8xx range of SCSI controllers). This is not a complete list, there are more. Symptoms of this confusion include the read @@ -6702,7 +6702,7 @@ define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',`deferred')dnl already, with mail/exim, mail/postfix, mail/qmail, mail/zmailer, being some of the most popular - choises. + choices. Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many different mail-servers to chose from is considered a @@ -7801,7 +7801,7 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure or from a X.sh script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Both are equally valid, and one may work in situations where the other does not. - In both cases the result is the same: X will popup a graphical + In both cases the result is the same: X will pop up a graphical login: prompt. The ttys method has the advantage of documenting which @@ -10240,7 +10240,7 @@ sio1: type 16550A from the ttydX device. Also, the cuaaX device does not care about carrier detect. With this scheme and an auto-answer modem, you can have - remote users log in and you can still dialout with the same + remote users log in and you can still dial out with the same modem and the system will take care of all the conflicts. @@ -11366,7 +11366,7 @@ raisechar=^^ It is a long story, or rather it is an old story, but it is quite short actually. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote - a book in the early 1960'ies, called Parkinson's + a book in the early 1960s, called Parkinson's Law, which contains a lot of insight into the dynamics of management.