at this time there is no loader.conf variable in defaults/loader.conf in 6,
note that.
Remove some old cruft and reword near sentence to keep flow going smoothly.
Two spaces between the end of a sentence and the beginning of a new sentence.
PR: 86733
Submitted by: Josh Paetzel (patch rewritten by me)
correctly display multibyte characters on some ISO 9660 CDs; inform the
user about the -C option of mount_cd9660 and the need of cd9660_iconv.ko
Problem found by: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>
o Remove 4.X information, this includes notes and sections.
o Update documentation to reflect 5.X and 6.X.
o In some areas, try to make the new content version agnostic.
o Skip areas stating "5.[0-5] and later" as it's relevant - we
need a better way to handle these.
For several items, I checked the NOTES files, manual pages,
CVS history, etc.
Discussed on: -doc
A few ideas from: remko
and things like that, which is consistent with the rest of the documention.
Also remove a paragraph that mentioned that the upcoming commands should be
executed as root, since the prompt should imply that already (like the rest
of the handbook has as well).
we now support most drives. Reword a whole bunch of stuff as a result,
including getting rid of some 4.x/early 5.x specific text.
Partially PR: docs/95601
Partially submitted by: James <inspiredbymetal@hotmail.co.uk>
- Remove 5.X from titles, since it applies to 5.X+.
- Refer only to bsdlabel in the 5.X+ section and remove note about the
switch from disklabel to bsdlabel in FreeBSD 5.1.
- Do not suggest users place file systems on the "c" partition (which
is meant for the "raw" device) and use the "a" partition instead.
(Note that I'm not really sure if there is a good reason to label a
memory disk before use when just using the entire disk for one file
system, but I will leave this for now.)
- Update program output to show what resent FreeBSD version actually
writes.
- For memory backed file system section, suggest that people use swap
backed and not malloc(9) backed, since malloc based memory disks
have a good disk of causing a panic since the kernel risks runing
out of memory in the malloc pool.
"next generation" technology anymore. :)
Update text and examples to match current realities relative
to the local_startup import, and other advances.
Attempt to future-proof the text a little by referring to
dates and releases, rather than (e.g.) "recently."
Add some more man page references.
Reviewed, and helpful suggestions provied by: pav
- mention that 4.X don't prefix device nodes with zero
- show how to force system to retaste media
- flip note from "on 5.X and later" to "on 4.X"
Solving: docs/79658
Reported by: Alan Larson <larson@w6yx.stanford.edu>
be any content changes involved in this commit, however, localization
teams are encouraged to catch up with this change.
Requested by: intron at intron ac
Reviewed by: Niclas Zeising <lothrandil at n00b apagnu se>
Glanced by: simon
- update atacontrol attach/detach syntax for 6.0, where it accepts ataN instead
of just N
- fix instructions for FreeBSD 5.X/6.X, where addspare step is needed and
rebuild command returns immediately
Fixes:
PR: docs/58111
Submitted by: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org>
PR: docs/83771
Submitted by: edwin
with FreeBSD, their relative merits and what the final choise of a
backup strategy has to cover/support.
PR: docs/89900
Submitted by: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.ilk.org>
2. Note that bsdtar is the default since 5.3, and that it doesn't
support tarring to remote tapes directly, only via a pipeline
through ssh or similar.
PR: docs/81738
Submitted by: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl>
mksnap_ffs(8) or mount(8). The previous statement was incorrect since
it mentions the immutable flag, i.e. "noschg" which is not the case when
one does "ls -lo" in a directory containing snapshot files.
While I am here, mention a way for finding snapshot files on a file
system.
PR: docs/80535 (inspired by)
Also remove the -U option from the example, since it could create ISO
images that some systems could not boot from (besides, it is not used in
the FreeBSD src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh script, and there probably
is a reason for that ;)
PR: 70952
Submitted by: Jon Wallace <jon@whoweb.com>
Based on: patch by Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com>
