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Joseph Koshy
09f8e01832 Mention that ATAPI Zip drives are also supported, post 2.2.6-RELEASE. 
Noticed by: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
 1998-06-18 10:07:09 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
8be4630691 Add HTTP link to the PDF version on the FTP Server. I hope 
Jordan will update the directory /pub/FreeBSD/docs more regulary ;-)
 1998-06-12 13:01:18 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
1cb2b175f9 Fix natd reference in section 10.3 
Submitted by: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
 1998-06-12 07:09:44 +00:00
Brian Somers
31426a9f8f Talk about why games aren't functional via a machine 
that's using libalias.
 1998-06-11 23:56:25 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
f3f2bae424 Fix spelling error. Mention that FreeBSD 3.0 current has 16 character 
login names.

Pointed out by: "Timothy J Luoma" <luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org>.
 1998-06-08 04:00:59 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
009fc21764 Expand section on FreeBSD IRC channels. 
Based on information submitted to the -doc list by "Campbell, Christopher"
<campbelc@osd.pentagon.mil>.
 1998-06-05 03:53:37 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
bd1ee6c016 The FAQ is also available in PDF format. 1998-05-27 15:33:15 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
c334ebd9e4 Rework sections on booting FreeBSD from LILO and Linux from BootEasy. 
PR: 5247
Submitted by:  Yoshiaki Uchikawa <yoshiaki@kt.rim.or.jp>
 1998-05-27 05:29:25 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6b6a33f581 Mentioned that a disk with bad blocks and sector remapping on is 
probably due for replacement.
Added a note to Q 4.5 that some NE2000 cards report timeouts when
  there is no link on the UTP port.

Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:48:11 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6d48a3a8d7 Added pointer to Greg's serial port patch for Acer UART-based systems. 
Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:47:43 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7685e4cba5 Changed maintainer to FAQ@FreeBSD.org. 
Added ``The Complete FreeBSD'' to the book list.

Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:47:17 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d50e504f51 Rewrote Q 10.15 to reflect reality. 
Added Dayna to list in Q 10.16.  I'll add Adaptec once I'm sure it works.
Added note about setting firewall_type='open' in Q 10.18.

Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:46:45 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a744b4c437 Pointed Q 4.1 to Handbook section on kernel building 
Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:46:05 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
0d73182d8a Added my boilerplace filelist to Q 2.1, "What files to download..." 
Added new question regarding removing an IDE ZIP to get the boot floppy
to go beyond the `Probing Devices...' dialog.

Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:45:17 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ef1439ac4a Changed Q's 3.2, 3.16, and 3.18 to point to the appropriate Handbook section(s). 
Mentioned -CURRENT's vpo driver in reference to parallel Zips in Q 3.5.

Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:44:15 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
626f6b5be7 Various FAQ cleanups. 
Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:43:12 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ad2cd47969 Pointed Q 8.3 at diskformat tutorial. 
Added question regarding how to reset lost root password.
Added question regarding how to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Submitted by: Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com>
Submitted by: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Submitted by: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
 1998-05-19 01:42:13 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
a42269f642 Expand mailing lists names: 
foo@freebsd.org -> freebsd-foo@freebsd.org
 1998-05-10 18:06:21 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
975356d5ce Add ISBN links to amazon.com. 1998-05-08 09:19:08 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
57e29ceb22 2.2.5R -> 2.2.6R. 1998-04-27 16:13:59 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
a8a0808f5f Add links to the FreeBSD DEC Alpha and UltraSPARC ports. 1998-04-14 10:01:36 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
2459ebdb5e Add link to text and html version. 
Add link to the FreeBSD Web Server and the mailing lists freebsd-doc.
 1998-04-14 09:55:30 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
924d071816 Renumerate (count over :-) -> compensate 
Typo noticed by: Dave Ritz <labrat@psu.edu>
 1998-03-30 21:44:15 +00:00
Hiroyuki Hanai
5d040c5e3f Fix a typo. 
Submitted by: Matsumoto <ymatsu@vid.cpg.sony.co.jp>
 1998-03-27 06:10:19 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
2e5e9a127a URL typo. 
Submitted by:	checkbot.
 1998-03-25 21:40:35 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
68793e9768 Update information for Walnut Creek CDROM 1998-03-24 03:26:41 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
59446451cd Add note that the PS/2 mouse driver, psm, is enabled in the GENERIC kernel 
by default in the latest versions (2.2.6 and 3.0-CURRENT).
 1998-03-23 05:56:02 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
e71e0e45fa Typo police. 
PR:	6088
 1998-03-21 22:03:07 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
ab3e13e1d7 Mention questions@freebsd.org the same place as doc@freebsd.org is 
mentioned.  This should hopefully limit the flood of questions sent to
doc@freebsd.org.
 1998-03-21 21:57:59 +00:00
Brian Somers
644afc89be Add a section describing what happens when the peer takes 
more than 6 seconds to start up !!!  Yeuch !
Change <tt/ppp/ to <bf/ppp/.
 1998-03-05 22:21:57 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a79b2dca80 Update information about ELF and running DOS binaries. 
Note:  I am pulling this out of thin air and should be reviewed by someone
more knowledgeable about -CURRENT (M$-DOS binaries) and the ELF issue.

PR:		docs/5837
 1998-02-28 23:03:41 +00:00
John Fieber
633a503c6c Update information on mouse support. 
Submitted by:	Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
 1998-02-01 23:02:37 +00:00
Brian Somers
15d57161a2 Talk a bit about sockets that are bound before ppp changes 
its IP number.
 1998-01-29 00:40:02 +00:00
Justin M. Seger
bfc4500e9d Fix a broken link to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi. 
PR:		docs/5581
Submitted by:	ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp
 1998-01-27 18:35:03 +00:00
Brian Somers
a7dd79a0a7 Mention the openmode delay option in ppp for defeating duplicate 
magic number problems.
 1998-01-20 22:48:19 +00:00
Brian Somers
ff2f33d074 Add DeliveryMode=deferred and Cwlocalhost to the 
example.
 1998-01-18 20:48:29 +00:00
Brian Somers
2d0ac61e1e Add a section on dealing with seg-faults in ppp. 1998-01-17 14:12:59 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
7199e5df7a Explain that FreeBSD will attempt to find memory >64MB (but it mail fail). 1997-12-31 21:51:56 +00:00
Brian Somers
37d9a91e0f Add an explaination of how to escape things in ppps chat script. 1997-12-15 23:38:10 +00:00
Alexander Langer
5cc4e869bf Added section: How much overhead does IPFW incur? 1997-12-14 22:20:38 +00:00
Steve Price
8b92d5797e Reword explanation of how to get the CVS bits with CVSup. 
PR:		5065
Submitted by:	Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>
 1997-11-28 17:29:22 +00:00
John Fieber
9262d08e31 Update URL for INN. 
Submitted by:	Igor Kremez <greenny@yahoo.com>
 1997-11-21 18:48:40 +00:00
Brian Somers
441557734f Suggest using confDELIVERY_MODE in sendmail's .mc file to avoid 
random dials in auto mode ppp.
 1997-11-14 20:22:31 +00:00
Steve Price
7865fd2200 The driver for the Intel EtherExpress was folded into the ie(4) 
driver some time ago by Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@freebsd.org).

PR:		docs/4880
 1997-11-04 03:49:22 +00:00
John Fieber
04f7fde5f1 An author element is required. 1997-11-03 13:50:06 +00:00
Masafumi Max NAKANE
5a99733233 Divide the FAQ into several pieces, one file for each section. 
Requested by:	the FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
Submitted by:	Mitsuru Iwasaki <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>
 1997-11-03 08:54:00 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
cb0e57789a Don't reference faq alias anymore - people are using it only (as far as 
I can see) to ask questions, so remove the reference and point the faq
alias at freebsd-questions.
 1997-10-29 12:27:53 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
cef5640aa9 Update for 2.2.5 1997-10-23 03:17:50 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
28ede55e3a Fix multios tutorial link. 1997-10-22 00:00:20 +00:00
Brian Somers
e20749ce38 Show people how to see their connection speed when they have 
no "set login" script.
 1997-10-19 22:54:40 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
82215be1b9 Make (some) headings fit on a single line for the benefit of 
Lynx users with "links are numbered" enabled.  Untangle a recently-
tangled entry.  :-)
 1997-10-19 19:20:44 +00:00
James Raynard
3ef7e4d140 Fix some typos. Also move things around so that "refer to previous 
question" entries make sense again, unspam one of the entries and
make headings fit on a single line again for the benefit of Lynx users.
 1997-10-19 13:35:27 +00:00
Brian Somers
9df75c9f62 Finish formatting. 
Add a section on sendmail configs for dynamic IP based users.
Add various links, fix typos etc.
 1997-10-18 23:34:07 +00:00
Brian Somers
82878c792e Reference sections of the handbook by name (not hardcoded section). 
Add -links to Makefile so that we can refer to the FAQ from elsewhere.
Mention that unterminated cheapnet cabeling will cause device timeouts.
Update references that used to say 2.1.7 is -stable.
Say that the last release was 2.2.5 in October '97.
Make formatting consistent for the first 1/3 of the file - the rest will follow.
 1997-10-18 16:06:01 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
47b133b71a Make question "11.21. How can I run zmodem with tip?" a little 
more realistic.
 1997-10-12 21:19:05 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
4369b2fb3a Add links to manpages. 1997-10-12 18:49:11 +00:00
Brian Somers
f5acc8505b Suggest how to stop a modem from hanging up 'cos 
of a CD glitch (or call waiting).
 1997-10-05 11:15:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
68799f0e1f Update to reflect a more current state of affairs. 1997-10-04 11:16:57 +00:00
Brian Somers
816cbe8c7c Mention a pre-2.2.5 bug in the tun driver that gets tickled 
by the "set mtu" command (now that we can see the IO error
in the log file).
 1997-10-04 00:19:58 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
bea9d4e38c Add links to manpages. 1997-10-03 20:53:38 +00:00
Peter da Silva
dd7db1e70a Updated docs for swapfile setup, added some commentary suggested 
by William Lloyd.
 1997-09-30 18:40:19 +00:00
Peter da Silva
ecbc52337f Added info for Sleepycat Software. 1997-09-30 17:46:40 +00:00
Alexander Langer
2a250d151b Fixed URL typo. 1997-09-26 01:20:31 +00:00
Brian Somers
3b7e6d6338 Mention where to get the latest ppp. 1997-09-24 21:47:54 +00:00
Brian Somers
303a7f0edf Say a few words about ECHO reflections and magic being 
the same.
I really think the ppp rfc should say that the server *must*
initiate LCP negotiations - otherwise things like this happen :-(
 1997-09-23 23:48:27 +00:00
Brian Somers
e6cbeb4ebb Say a few words about ppp. 1997-09-21 12:35:36 +00:00
Peter da Silva
5f56e2d06d Fix note on CMD640 to reference the correct releases. 
Added note on conflict between uha and ahc drivers (joerg)
Fixed links to core team list.
Added link from HP Netserver entry to Joerg's new dedicated disks entry.
 1997-09-10 11:50:51 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
b0db2901b9 Add a chapter about ``dangerously dedicated'' disks, their pro's and con's. 1997-09-07 14:04:39 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
62fd1f0b5c This is *very* picky about <label> lines. Right after a <heading> 
will hose you but right before a </heading> won't.  Go figure. :)
 1997-09-07 12:17:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
3963d5c603 Restore truncated header for section 2.8 
Add strategic paragraph heading to restore section 4.1
 1997-09-05 10:31:13 +00:00
Peter da Silva
9e47640154 Put back the one missing change from the mega-update. 
Changed my mailto: to my main address, to keep FAQ questions
from getting swamped by commit messages.
 1997-09-02 23:31:38 +00:00
John Fieber
f0b05660bf Make this parse correctly. 1997-09-02 16:09:01 +00:00
Peter da Silva
90a00af70b A bunch of reorganization, mostly. Plus some minor changes. 
If you put some changes in between August 11 and August 30, let
me know so I can re-update them. I keep trying to do a clean
commit based on what's in there, but I'm getting further and
further behind. I apologize for any inconvenience.
 1997-09-01 20:56:37 +00:00
Wolfgang Helbig
c52150a830 The CMD640 workaround is now enabled by default. 1997-08-30 10:24:30 +00:00
Steve Price
7722d3e406 Fix phone number for Advanced Multimedia Distributors. NOTE: 
I have not actually tried this number but it does seem to
conform to other Australian numbers that I have seen.

PR:		docs/3919
Submitted by:	Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
 1997-08-11 02:07:58 +00:00
Steve Price
cd3c2017f7 Remove comment about nic ISDN drivers being supported. 
PR:		docs/2275
Submitted by:	Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX-BA-Stuttgart.De>
 1997-08-11 01:40:00 +00:00
Steve Price
a504ac4be7 Make a note where the current version of the sendmail FAQ 
can be found.

PR:		docs/3875
Obtained from:	"Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr1@flash.net>
 1997-08-10 19:14:19 +00:00
John Fieber
426e6ff9e9 Fix "submitters" link. 1997-07-09 13:03:29 +00:00
Peter da Silva
3dbc138180 Made the laptop mouse section easier to find, added a note on LILO versus 
the FreeBSD boot manager. Twiddled spelling/hyphenation a little.
 1997-06-24 13:00:57 +00:00
John Fieber
ea5f42f948 Fix broken link to obsolete welcome.html. 1997-06-15 19:56:41 +00:00
Peter da Silva
af02b8fb7f Added missing <p> tag. 1997-05-27 11:05:55 +00:00
Peter da Silva
68a70adb17 Added reference to Mark Mayo's web page. 1997-05-27 11:03:45 +00:00
Peter da Silva
ceeb4e27a3 Adding section on using removable drives, based on Mark Mayo's submission 
on ZIP drives.
 1997-05-27 10:58:17 +00:00
Peter da Silva
18770750b2 Updated relevant references from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2, fixed a little obsolete 
wording.
 1997-05-26 15:56:40 +00:00
Peter da Silva
09f810396d Add a comment to the >16M and >64M entries for lying COMPAQ BIOSes. 1997-05-13 22:01:50 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
b8f0c2fc38 3.3-current -> 3.0-current 1997-05-07 16:32:31 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
491011442b Clean up the slightly tortured english I produced yesterday. :) 1997-05-07 10:44:08 +00:00
Peter da Silva
33d97121e2 PR: none 
Submitted by:	pds
 1997-05-06 16:21:18 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ab90af6027 Describe SNAPs and RELENGes as requested on USENET. 1997-05-06 06:38:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
c1d170348c bettter -> cleaner. 1997-05-03 04:46:42 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a49e1ec0cb COFF sections not restricted to 16 bits. 
Submitted by:	cubfm :)
 1997-05-01 22:07:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ac6b16d546 Add an entry about a.out vs ELF since I'm tired of reading about it. 
Based-On-The-Postings-Of:	joerg
 1997-05-01 20:55:20 +00:00
John Fieber
d3cb4ba724 Fix markup bogons. 1997-04-21 00:42:54 +00:00
Peter da Silva
36e164ae57 Updating FAQ entry for X Inside. 
Added FAQ entries for tape changers and login names.
Fixed <code> tags.

PR:		docs/3324
PR:		docs/3326
 1997-04-20 11:53:53 +00:00
Satoshi Asami
ad4d1c76db Add a short blurb about the ports page in the "applications" question. 
List all three packages directories in the ensuing packages description.

Add a short (in fact, very short) section about libc.so.3.0 and wrong
package versions.
 1997-04-10 12:06:53 +00:00
Brian Somers
f287a24f84 Add a section on sysmouse configuration. 
Suggested by: jkh
 1997-04-10 10:20:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f26c5c4c66 Update run - try and use the correct release numbers for everything. 1997-04-05 08:38:48 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
33d1a3cbfd Change X Inside to Xi Graphics 
See http://www.xig.com/ci/pr/970219.xigraphics.html
Leading Software Company Changes Name to Avoid Confusion with Internet
Porn Denver -- A leading developer of high-performance graphical
software has changed its name from X Inside to Xi Graphics. The
reason: Ongoing confusion between the software developer and the
increasing number of X-rated pornography companies on the Internet
 1997-03-21 18:40:11 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8caaa13192 Reinstating stuff that fell out after jeorg's update... 
Submitted-By: pds
 1997-03-20 13:15:41 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e0d786e49e Use the correct name for the HLT instruction. 
Submitted by:	bde
 1997-03-19 18:31:59 +00:00