This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
better than using the "FAQ" alias as people have either ignored or
misused the alias in the past, and this gives the feeling that there's
an actual person behind it now (which will be a nice change in any case :-).
When I booted my system without the above option, the CDROM could not
respond in time to the bootup probe of devices and was "missed". When
I tried to access the device I got the "Device not configured" error
message. I rebuilt the kernel with the SCSI_DELAY option and the
problem went away.
Submitted by: Jon Wallace <adrl@whoweb.com>
NOT being maintained, that I vote for killing this document soon and
moving everything into the Handbook. The FAQ needs to be "driven" a lot
more aggressively than it has been, and since that's clearly never going to
happen then we should kill it to halt the spread of outdated information.
Add a section on what to do in order to recompile the latest BIND from ISC.
Change a & into a more proper & as LaTeX shoked on it.
Obtained from: Usenet
address - Melbourne is a city in the state of Victoria, not vice versa! :-)
Also add reference to Greg Lehey's books in the appropriate section,
replace some redundant questions by pointers to the Handbook, replace
"look at this bit of the Handbook" pointers by URLs, clean up
inconsistent use of "one" and "you" and fix a couple of typos
introduced by my previous changes...
* Removed material that was duplicated in the installation instructions.
* Updated the address for an Australian supplier of CDROMs (supplied by
David Henshaw via Martin Butkus).
* Give more info about how to get started with the installation.
* Update references to 2.1.0 as "the latest release".
* Added pointer to a Web page explaining how to have multiple operating
systems on the same machine.
* Moved question about running DOS binaries out of the installation section.
* Added question re boot floppy not loading properly.
* Added explanation of disk geometry, moved things around so that "please
refer to the previous question" no longer sends the reader with a
non-booting system to a PLIP cable wiring diagram!
* Mention the time/space requirements for making a custom install floppy.
* Acknowledge a couple of people whose answers I've adapted in various
places (and who deserve credit anyway for answering so many questions!)
(suggested by Darryl Okahata).
* Add explanation of what virtual consoles are
(suggested by Francisco Reyes)
* Minor formatting change to fix docs/1378 (could some kind person
close this for me? Thanks!)
* Removed references to obsolete /usr/share/FAQ/Text directory.
* Added details of UK supplier of FreeBSD CDs.
* Made the consequences of running ``make world'' more explicit.
* More cleaning and tidying up.
comprehensive re-write later.
* Ruthlessly condense questions so they fit on a single line (the
TOC is now actually readable in lynx!). In one or two cases, this
has meant splitting up questions or incorporating part of the old
question into the answer.
* Make it clear that the question about disklabel'ing is actually
about adding a second hard disk, provide a _much_ simpler answer and
move it out of the installation section.
* Don't imply that the AHA2920 is supported (I suspect we will get a
lot of queries about this)
* Reword the non-serious questions to hint that the answer may not be
particularly informative...
* Correct typos and grammar, remove US-centric colloquialisms :-)
and many more.
"It would be good to point out that a machine that only has SCSI devices
may also generate this message if an IDE CD-ROM is not configured as
the Master device. Words like these might work ..."
This generally means that there is no CDROM in the CDROM drive,
or the drive is not visible on the bus. Feed the drive
something, and/or check it's master/slave status.
Submitted by: Neil Smith <ngs@sesame.hensa.ac.uk> with a small addition
Ideally, this should go into the ``mail'' section of the handbook, but
i don't have the time to write all of this right now, so i've put it
into the FAQ.
