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Nik Clayton
1bf726ea10 Added question re: mounting NTFS filesystem, and a pointer to Mark 
Ovens' tutorial.

PR: docs/9687
Submitted by: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
 1999-01-27 00:11:44 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
5e7aa9ad7e Grammer nit: "Connect 2" -> "Connect two" 1999-01-26 21:27:30 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
448c5c392d Answer the often asked 'bpf' questions. 
Requested By:	some people on -net
 1999-01-26 21:25:11 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
f56a255733 Forgotten perl option in dos2unix 1999-01-25 17:50:16 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6c18ae4980 Sync with the 3.0-stable branch event. 1999-01-21 01:49:15 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7d5db45b44 small tweak to the wording. 1999-01-19 04:53:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f6c167c0a8 Update IRC descriptions for those weenies who haven't yet figured out 
that IRC is a free-for-all.
 1999-01-19 04:43:10 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
c5ab5a1e9b Add alternative perl-free script for reformatting DOS text files. 
Submitted by:	David Jones <drj@helper.demon.co.uk> on -doc
Reviewed by:	jkoshy
 1999-01-19 03:05:44 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e8c8f0f2a9 The days of 3.0-BETA and a.out kernels are long gone. 1999-01-18 20:12:22 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
d7b69d4c2d Typo in hyperlink for Bill Paul. 
It sure would be nice to be able to use the &a.foo entities in the FAQ.
That would make for some funky dependencies, though. Oh well.
 1999-01-12 20:22:13 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
479f6c95d3 URL typo. 
Reported by: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>
 1999-01-12 00:49:15 +00:00
Steve Price
b088eb8a74 Spell responsibility correctly. 
PR:		9417
Submitted by:	Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw>
 1999-01-10 18:01:45 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
dea3d4b2c2 Be less vague about what "recent" means. 1998-12-06 05:14:56 +00:00
Doug White
9f73002a0c Add questions for: 
1.  Adding mre pty's
2.  Solutions to the 'calcru' problems under -current
    Submitted by:	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
 1998-12-05 00:24:11 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
723d065c2e (1) -stable is now 2.2.8, released in December 1998 
(2) Fix spelling error that ispell (grrr) didn't catch.

PR:		docs/8964
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
		Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
 1998-12-04 22:17:36 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
5e6f9fef63 Accurately describe the purpose of EFNet's #FreeBSD. 
OK'd by:	Nik
 1998-12-04 20:37:13 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
c5c26ff102 Update another link for 3.0.1. Has the FAQ gone inactive again? 
I ask only so that I'll know whether it's appropriate to call for FAQ
sweepers again.
 1998-12-04 08:23:36 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2ebdba57ee Update various citations. 1998-12-03 13:47:28 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8a6c2c722f Spelling fix. 
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
PR:		8791
 1998-11-23 04:40:33 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
536e63daa0 Fix various spelling errors. 
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
PR:		8792
 1998-11-22 14:03:32 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
c50230f75f Fix confusion between the maximal possible number of sectors per track, 
and the maximal possible number of heads.
Submitted by:	na354@fen.baynet.de (Josef Kraus)
 1998-11-19 19:51:54 +00:00
Doug White
497749de04 Add info for bad block remapping on ESDI drives. 
Submitted by:	 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
 1998-11-18 21:40:32 +00:00
Doug White
f33e2614ae Add an entry for bandwidth managers. 
Submitted by:	 George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 1998-11-18 21:39:43 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
abb923bb10 Update architecture information in light of alpha port. 1998-11-08 11:47:01 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2c23ad9451 prune a double entry. 1998-11-08 11:04:57 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
4af8cf98a0 Spelling fixes and typos. 
Submitted by: PA <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw> via wosch@freebsd.org to the
	freebsd-doc list.
 1998-11-02 03:20:46 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
f48722c8d0 Added a section how to connect 2 FreeBSD boxes over a parallel line (PLIP) 1998-10-30 23:15:03 +00:00
Brian Somers
0d7ea4b7ce Mention that the ``first connection'' problem is fixed in the 
latest version of ppp.
 1998-10-22 18:14:54 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
33f0e25d0c Make the link to the search page a full link so it 
will work from a local copy of the FAQ.
 1998-10-15 20:24:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
e45caebf62 Cut and paste my ELF explaination from my -current post a few days 
ago.  SGMLify it (I hope), word smith minor nits and try to catch all
my typos.  Those more qualified than I at SGML and spelling should
check to make sure that I've not fu-bar'd anything.
 1998-10-08 00:23:37 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
78bb58718f Update CAM URL. 1998-09-29 11:49:53 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
43688d005c Add the promised "Making the most out of a kernel panic" section based 
on one of Bill Paul's postings on -current.

Hope I didn't screw up to badly since this is my first contact with
SGML apart from HTML :)

Encouraged-By:	jkh
 1998-09-22 22:09:54 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
0285e12246 Update FFS size limits. 
Submitted by: Bruce
 1998-09-08 09:47:20 +00:00
Steve Price
fa94861f90 Spelling nit: XF86config -> XF86Config 
Submitted by:	mihs.bbs@bbs.ee.ncu.edu.tw
 1998-09-07 21:33:23 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
81d85d3422 Delete link to 2.1.x packages 
Rename 2.2.6 packages  to 2.2.7
 1998-09-07 09:19:29 +00:00
Brian Somers
ec8bffb109 Explain what FCS errors are and what they indicate. 1998-09-06 13:55:10 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
06b7160fe3 Added Alternative layout policies for directories 
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick
 1998-09-06 10:54:05 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
d12eb987d4 Fix ffs limits. 
Submitted by: bruce
 1998-09-06 10:53:07 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
97418863ae RELENG_2_2 is well beyond the 2.2 GAMMA point. 1998-09-04 09:00:08 +00:00
Doug White
ebd500e85b Typo. 
Submitted by:	PA <mihs.bbs@bbs.ee.ncu.edu.tw>
 1998-09-02 06:21:19 +00:00
Motoyuki Konno
713acdfc9a Latest release in the 2.2-stable branch: 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 
Submitted by: SUGIMURA Takashi <takas-su@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
 1998-08-30 05:36:38 +00:00
Motoyuki Konno
25192e7556 Typo fix: 
su with option "-K" -> su with option "-k"

Submitted by: Nishika <nishika@cheerful.com>
 1998-08-27 05:57:20 +00:00
Brian Somers
82c17c2178 What to do when ppp hangs at startup time. 1998-08-26 09:52:11 +00:00
Doug White
ccb42a7ed9 Typo. 
Pointed out by:  mihs.bbs@bbs.ee.ncu.edu.tw
 1998-08-20 03:45:51 +00:00
Doug White
3d1fbbd3c3 Add several FAQ questions. Closes PR docs/5070. 
PR: docs/5070
 1998-08-18 23:26:50 +00:00
Doug White
f3a3dbdbf8 Update current version in Q. 1.5. 1998-08-17 23:09:21 +00:00
Doug White
4bcfca0a9c Reword FAQ question 9.6 to be more neutral in the xdm startup issue. 1998-08-17 23:03:58 +00:00
Nik Clayton
84dba82825 TYPO: excelent -> excellent 
Submitted by:	mihs.bbs@bbs.ee.ncu.edu.tw
 1998-08-14 15:27:29 +00:00
Nik Clayton
47d07a379a rbt -> boot, when discussing keymaps. 
Submitted by:	mihs.bbs@bbs.ee.ncu.edu.tw
 1998-08-14 15:24:02 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
583b7efc5d Tweak FAQ entry on booting from 2nd IDE drive. 
Submitted by: "John Grimes" <jegjr@pop.erols.com>
 1998-08-12 04:02:57 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
b5d07eae94 Use relative URLs. 1998-08-09 22:53:56 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
f10ffefe09 Fix gallery link. 1998-08-09 22:10:17 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
5537eea87f http://ftp.freebsd.org is dead. 1998-08-06 14:37:13 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
4d344f94f5 Correct ZIP FAQ URL. 
Pointed out by: <kontac@ihug.co.nz>
 1998-08-04 02:22:58 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
a967b2949c Fix links due repository copy. 1998-08-03 17:38:19 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
3852e918cd Fix links due repository copy. 1998-08-03 15:37:48 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
714203951f Fix links due repository copy. 1998-08-03 13:34:15 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
284ccab18b Update text on Multicast support. 
PR: docs/7079
 1998-07-30 02:31:21 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
7454820bd1 Update FreeBSD/Alpha link. 1998-07-24 17:34:09 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7da0001698 Be a bit more verbose about login name length. 1998-07-23 14:10:03 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
fc75bbbf65 Disable parallel mode. There are temp file name clashes 
in parallel mode.
 1998-07-23 10:27:04 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
8511c4cee5 Add FAQ: "Help! I'm getting ``panic: can't mount root''" 
PR:		docs/7336
Submitted by:	dwhite@FreeBSD.ORG
 1998-07-21 03:19:06 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
28a67393b8 typos 
(one) Submitted by:	"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <gelderen@mediaport.org>
 1998-07-13 07:48:07 +00:00
Steve Price
22a76d8825 collection -> connection 
PR:		7174
Submitted by:	laskavy@Hedehog.CS.MSU.SU
 1998-07-05 23:05:27 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
35d93552dc Add a Q. on the boot floppy image not fitting on a floppy. 
Approved-by: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> (FAQ maintainer)
Commented-on-rather-lengthily-by: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>.
 1998-07-03 06:06:34 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
81ada0706b (applications.sgml, hardware.sgml, install.sgml, troubleshoot.sgml): 
docs/7082  Fix grammar errors (Dag-Erling Coidan <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>)

admin.sgml:         Add section on amd
applications.sgml:  Add section on installing FrontPage
hardware.sgml:      Add sections on CAM, P&P modems, serial consoles
install.sgml:       Add section on why not to remove sc0
preface.sgml:       Sync versions-graph with our current temporal co-ordinates
x.sgml:             Add sections on missing Imake.tmpl, reversing mouse buttons
	docs/7083  (FAQ maintainer, dwhite)

admin.sgml:  Something about mounting root.  With -a.  Dooh!
	docs/7084  (FAQ maintainer, dwhite)
 1998-06-27 01:13:49 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
77f0086166 Added Q `why does my 3Com PCI NIC not work with my Micron computer'? 
PR: docs/6444
Reviewed-by: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> (FAQ maintainer)
 1998-06-26 04:05:25 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
af3bed3816 New Q: "full screen apps on remote machines misbehave"; a short 
lesson on the importance of TERM.

PR: 7012
 1998-06-22 10:17:55 +00:00
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