- Update the list of available install ISO images.
- Remove 6.X information as the handbook says "I cover 7.3 and 8.1".
- Sync the description with the information we provide in the release announcements.
Original patch provided by: Glen Barber (glen dott j dott barber ett gmail dott com)
reader that installation floppies are no longer available for 8.X and
above.
PR: docs/147347 and docs/149230
Patch submitted by: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
FreeBSD 8.0. Therefore, remove last vestiges of SLIP
from this part of the handbook.
Note that the screenshots will be updated separately,
thanks to blackend@.
PR: docs/145028
Submitted by: Aiza (aiza21 at comclark dot com)
Approved by: jkois (mentor)
that is default for a long time now (people willing to change and use a
custom newfs, should know some more information upfront by reading the
manual page of newfs).
&os;/&arch.platform; and we had + Architecture for AMD64, which
makes it different.
Correct a little typo as well.
Found by translating the chapter for The Dutch Documentation Project
- Inform the reader that the default sizes provided by the Auto Default
mode are based on the size of the disk (present in the machine).
(2 related screenshots will be updated in few hours)
Requested by: many
during Standard installation but can be accessible at the end of the
installation procedure. So, let's move that part at the end of the
installation procedure. If I cut&paste that part, cvs diff gives me a
very garbled diff (which can be very hard to read) for an unknown reason,
so I'll just cut that part in the present commit and I'll re-add it in
the next commit.
128MB for / instead of 100MB and 256MB instead of 50MB for /var
(this size is a bit above the minimal size proposed by the automatic
sizing algorithm);
- Update the / partition creation to really use the same size as the
one given in the partition layout discussion;
- Update sysinstall messages for the mouse configuration.
entries that were removed have existed (largely unchanged) since 2001
and largely refer to problems for specific hardware devices that are
not in common use anymore.
notes to the installation chapter of the handbook. This is basically
a verbatim copy except for changes that were necessary to make the new
text build (consisted of removing a few entities and arch=
attributes).
Subsequent commits will remove questions that (in my opinion) are no
longer relevant or recent and adjust whitespace to match the rest of
this file.
in the "Troubleshooting" section. Moreover, the information provided
in the answers are actually given in more detail in the "Hardware
Requirements" and "Pre-Installation Tasks" sections.
Delete this Q&A section, but move its indexterm elements to other,
more appropriate parts of the chapter.
same information about repartitioning a disk holding DOS partitions.
The earlier (in the text) one is at a more logical place in the flow
of the text, and it also contains more up-to-date information. Add a
few more tidbits culled from the installation notes to the first
discussion about repartitioning and remove the second.
in this case we really should be using an entity that indicates a
variant of FreeBSD (such as &arch.sparc64; from the release notes),
not the commercial name of an architecture. However, adopt the
prevailing style of this file for consistency; we can sort this out
later.
- Add boot loader menu screenshot.
[1] This is for i386, this should be correct for amd64. I cannot really
update the alpha part (no alpha hardware under the hand).
And the 5.25" floppy/1.2 MB disk has been unpopular a lone times ago
in fact. Therefore, remove the 5.25" floppy/1.2 MB disk related stuff.
- Update the "Creating Installation Floppies" section.
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4.X 5.X and later
bin/bin.xx base/base.xx
