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Murray Stokely
1b3b913517 Add <command>, <quote>, <literal>, etc. as appropriate. 
Also change one instance of 'info' to 'information'.

PR:		docs/31899
Submitted by:	Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de>
 2001-11-14 16:57:31 +00:00
Murray Stokely
a4a905aa52 Clarify that USB mice should work fine in FreeBSD 4.X. The 
recompilation procedure described is only necessary for FreeBSD 3.X.

PR:		docs/31830
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 16:32:01 +00:00
Murray Stokely
dc4d74e32f Add an entry about "proc: table is full" errors. 
PR:		31857
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 16:14:16 +00:00
Murray Stokely
a8a2275f0d Add a small note about using a sysctl instead of recompiling the 
kernel.

PR:		31976
Submitted by:	Marc Silver <marcs@riffraff.plig.net>
 2001-11-14 16:01:35 +00:00
Murray Stokely
a15f897fee Correct an innaccuracy. (We do in fact include ISC DHCP with FreeBSD 
4.4, just not the newest v3.X).
 2001-11-14 15:59:15 +00:00
Murray Stokely
5006154fd6 Improve the grammar of several sentences. 
PR:		31951
Submitted by:	Jean-Francois Dockes <jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr>
 2001-11-14 15:56:09 +00:00
Murray Stokely
d6b6e478fb Add <command> tag. 
PR:		31886
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 15:45:47 +00:00
Murray Stokely
7f08fffcd2 Add an entry that explains the ``swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer:'' 
error.  Answer supplied by Matt Dillon.

PR:		31854
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 15:04:24 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
007050d29a Add a reference to the online reproduction of Chapter 9 ("The Network 
Filesystem") of McKusick, Karels &c. book on 4.4BSD.
 2001-11-14 11:04:36 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
ecf2b826b5 Add a reference to the online reproduction of Chapter 2 of McKusick, 
Karels &c. book on 4.4BSD.

PR:		31853
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 10:25:32 +00:00
John Polstra
bccf022f29 Add cvsup.lv.freebsd.org. That's Latvia, for those of you who are a 
bit geographically challenged.
 2001-11-14 04:43:56 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
6f5417d33e Add aparagraph that notes CDATA and RCDATA is not validated, and 
suggest that SGML examples are validated externally.

Approved by:	   nik
Original idea by:  Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-14 01:16:34 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
12edac9ef8 Add "what do I do if something goes wrong during buildworld" FAQ 
to cutting-edge chapter.

PR:		31803
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-14 00:10:38 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
b22b1ecb4a Fix typo: s/Konqeuror/Konqueror/ 
PR:		31959
Submitted by:	Steven Huwig <sjh13@po.cwru.edu>
 2001-11-13 23:57:20 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7e6cb3420d Add "why did my 3C509 stop working" FAQ. From the PR, with a markup 
fix for a missing closing quote.

PR:		31784
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 21:37:09 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7abba1b857 Document "port" tag. From the PR, but with the text moved to a more 
suitable section (DocBook vs. HTML section) and with an explanatory
note that this element is a FreeBSD extension to DocBook.

PR:		31934
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-13 18:07:39 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
edf26dccd4 Document the "errorname" tag. 
PR:		31776
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 08:14:49 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
2ef678d4ab Add my PGP/GPG key, which got signed by some people at BSDCon EU. 2001-11-13 06:20:21 +00:00
John Polstra
943834e78f Add cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org. 2001-11-13 04:55:13 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9a59b793ed Mention the risks of umount -f. 
PR:		31883
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-13 03:32:27 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
674bece4ac Fix breakage (<listitem> -> </listitem>). 2001-11-12 00:38:40 +00:00
Tom Hukins
64ac5cb25a Fix typo 
PR:		docs/31909
Submitted by:	Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com>
 2001-11-11 21:30:04 +00:00
Anders Nordby
eb1089deec Really add myself to the developers section. 
Pointed out by:	dd
Pointy hat to:	me

Approved by:	will
 2001-11-11 15:12:05 +00:00
Anders Nordby
fd584447b3 Add my PGP key. 
Approved by:	will
 2001-11-11 14:48:10 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
7a04c68be7 Update shells description. 
While I'm here delete some not-quite-as-applicable-as-it-once-was
text about shells in ports having "much more power".

PR:		31884
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 19:56:58 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
9b9c77a1ff Login names are not "still" restricted to 8 characters, unless one is 
running 2.2.X or earlier.

PR:		31881
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:44:25 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
ac67398a26 Update ld.so FAQ. From PR with one markup change. 
PR:		31878
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:41:02 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
dfbdd47336 Revise smbfs FAQ, eliminating the last XXX in the FAQ. 
From the PR with a minor markup change.

PR:		31880
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 17:08:52 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
f241b59ab4 Add some new text regarding portupgrade to the "upgrading ports" 
FAQ, and tweak existing text slightly.

This change comes from the PR with one markup modification and one
rewording.

PR:		31879
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 02:10:57 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
175030aed2 Use &os.numports; instead of a hardcoded (out-of-date) constant. 
PR:		31875
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 01:48:30 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
6097877b7b Handbook entry referred to describes a tool, it is not the tool itself. 
PR:		31882
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-10 01:33:00 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
2de2350a12 Tell people where to find books on OS internals (in other words, a 
link to the Handbook's excellent Bibliography).

PR:		31785
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 16:34:18 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
1bac33c865 Add an FAQ entry about why du and df may disagree on how much space is 
free.

PR:		31821
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 16:25:19 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
68298cf09a Fill paragraph. 2001-11-07 15:10:39 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
15a693d7a1 Reword run-on sentence. 
PR:		31808
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-07 15:09:37 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
cd9c547880 Remove extra word. 
PR:		31805
Submitted by:	mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 2001-11-07 14:35:25 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
71add6ef61 Clarify that PAO is relevant for <= 3.x only. 
PR:		31780
Submitted by:	<mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-07 13:47:59 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
d2b4fcb33b src-eBones and src-secure aren't necessary to build a release; src-all 
is sufficient.

PR:		31777
Submitted by:	Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
 2001-11-07 13:45:06 +00:00
Anders Nordby
aae63bc158 Remove myself from additional contributors section, add to developers section. 
Approved by:	will
 2001-11-06 22:33:51 +00:00
Chern Lee
0ba13f481e Use "raising" and "lowering" the signal over "asserting" and 
"disasserting" (not a word).

Suggested by: nik
 2001-11-05 19:25:52 +00:00
Chern Lee
fac4584d62 Reverse four instances in previous spelling-fix commit: 
* out takes -> outtakes
 * blinking lights -> Blinkenlights
 * hard coding -> hardcoding
 * place holder -> place holder

Pointed out by: des
 2001-11-05 19:13:01 +00:00
Anton Berezin
a203f41404 Update Vadim Belman's E-mail address. 2001-11-05 13:37:43 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
32918c67aa Update Daniel Hagan's email entry. 
Submitted by:	Daniel Hagan <dhagan@acm.vt.edu>
 2001-11-05 08:59:00 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6bf03d1f93 Provide instructions for upgrading 3.X -> 4.X from source. 
PR:		docs/31695
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-05 08:41:26 +00:00
Murray Stokely
2ede66105d Don't claim that our FTP site will allow compressed/tarred grabbing of 
whole directory trees.  Only claim that some of our FTP mirrors MAY
support this functionality.

PR:		docs/31667
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
 2001-11-05 07:58:55 +00:00
Murray Stokely
c7313cc357 Update the link to the 'cvsupit' package. Also change the language to 
show that cvsupit helps customize the supfile and cvsup behavior.

PR:		docs/31667
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, and
		mh@cs.tu-berlin.de
 2001-11-05 07:50:32 +00:00
Murray Stokely
f31a95a427 Get our story straight about the "most recommended" way to obtain 
the source for FreeBSD (remove contradicting statements).
Consistently recommend CVSup but continue to mention the FTP and CTM
options.

PR:		docs/31663
Submitted by:	Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
 2001-11-05 07:35:33 +00:00
Murray Stokely
b98392cee3 By default, emacs doesn't set tab fillers and page width correctly for 
the docproj materials.  This adds a sample .emacs entry to set this
properly.

PR:		docs/31707
Submitted by:	Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, and
		keramida
 2001-11-05 07:13:36 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
599513ed1c Lots of people want to know how to change the booteasy prompts [so add 
an FAQ about it].

PR:		31480
Submitted by:	Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
 2001-11-04 23:45:30 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
b3491962c1 Add an answer for: "Is there a cryptographic filesystem for FreeBSD?" 2001-11-04 22:21:00 +00:00