More specifically:
- mentions of old versions of FreeBSD in historical context are left in tact
- remove section about KerberosIV
- remove section about SAP R/3
- remove mentions of XFree86
- only support gvinum
- update examples to 7.X or 8.X
- remove Alpha support
- add COMPAT_FREEBSD[67] kernel options
- csup(1) now only in the base system
- update (tty) device names, add warnings for 7.X
- remove MD5 from the port checksum algorithms
- update port versions (probably not all)
- add definitions for ctm-src[5-8] to mailing-lists.ent
Reviewed by: bcr, joel, remko, simon
releases and produces a warning when invoked like that. Change the example
to use the correct non-numeric form.
PR: docs/152248
Submitted by: Warren Block (wblock at wonkity dot com)
instead of a fixit floppy (the given fixit floppy build procedure does
not work). I had this change on my todo list since 2003...
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Security:
between ehci(4) and o/uchi(4) which comes from a time when USB 2.X
support was "young". Let's mention usbconfig(8). This section is now
8.X, 7.X and 6.X compliant.
we insert /dev/MAKEDEV in the floppy then? I dont have it anymore
on a recent system, thus remove the information about it. Probably
the information in the mini-kernelconfiguration example could use
a little hand as well.
- Avoid the capitalization of the geli command;
- In disk encryption section, reword a sentence mentioning old
removed swap encryption stuff;
- Slight rewording of a title to match what we really talk about;
- Punctuation fix where needed.
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>
