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Ben Smithurst
a95aa3e58e Add "What is a repo-copy" Q&A, I've seen it asked a few times... 2000-07-11 21:36:22 +00:00
Ben Smithurst
a7f08b687d Remove an ugly ASCII table which has already been converted to SGML. 2000-07-11 15:42:14 +00:00
Ben Smithurst
2bb41261de Fix a messed up link. 2000-07-11 15:40:26 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
057545fee6 Add a little blurb about #FreeBSDhelp on EFNet, a channel who actually
likes answering newbie questions.

Reviewed by:	jim
2000-07-11 03:49:47 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
45aed53b93 Fix website links to be available from local copy of the FAQ (gallery,
commercial, tutorials)b

Inspired by: docs/19303

While I am here also fix:

. style (s/url=/URL=/)
. optimize <ulink url=mailto: ...> with <email>
. increase current amount of FreeBSD ports from "about 1800" to more real
value (3400) :)
2000-07-08 14:56:40 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
bc2f1cd4f8 Add a target for the IRC section so people can be kickbanned^Weasily
pointed in its direction.
2000-07-06 06:43:43 +00:00
Jim Mock
5169141c6a Fix the ftp location of 3.4 and 4.0 releases.
Submitted by:	Andrew Moore <moore@rscs.net> via the -doc list
2000-06-23 16:48:33 +00:00
Nik Clayton
8e9ddf2e78 Add a question about booting from ATAPI CD-ROMs which then disappear when
you try to install from them, typically because they're the slave on an IDE
controller with no master.  Based on text from Michael Lucas
<mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
2000-06-21 21:58:01 +00:00
Alexander Langer
85076c4905 Add q/a about mounting smb filesystems using the port sharity-light.
PR:		17780
Submitted by:	Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
2000-06-20 11:12:00 +00:00
Alexander Langer
978084693a a) technical updates, such as reflecting cvsup changes, cvsup mirrors,
daily snapshots, rsync and bad144 nuke, nuke > 16 MB RAM question,
   sysconfig -> rc.conf, rc.local -> local/rc.d/, SYSV* in GENERIC, ELF

b) language updates, such as minor grammar nits, "FreeBSD 2.2.x" -> "FreeBSD";
   whitespace cleanup

PR:		18477
Submitted by:	Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
Reviewed by:	jim
2000-06-14 19:49:18 +00:00
Alexander Langer
17147340bb Fix minor errors and omissions in FAQ's Windows(tm) keys section.
PR:		17364
Submitted by:	Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
Reviewed by:	asmodai
2000-06-12 14:38:15 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
39e10b04ea Update the NT loader directions.
PR:		19174
Submitted by:	Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
2000-06-12 11:37:05 +00:00
Alexander Langer
d4272a96e8 Move "." at and of the sentence out of the <ulink></ulink>.
Reviewed by:	asmodai
2000-06-09 11:10:48 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
43cdc3784c Remove duplicated word.
PR:		16891
Submitted by:	Mark Ovens <ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
2000-06-04 15:18:05 +00:00
Nik Clayton
b25a76ebcc * Remove some "remap=tt" from <emphasis>. In some cases, replace <emphasis>
with something more appropriate, like <command>

 * Fix up <address>.  White space within <address> *is* significant,
   so the translation teams will have to duplicate this change.

 * Remove some <para> and </para> tags that erroneously broke up some
   paragraphs into two or more paragraphs.

 * Correct some <literallayout>s to <programlisting>

 * Remove some <para>...</para>s that were wrapping elements that don't
   need them (like <itemizedlist>).

 * Convert examples to use <screen> and <userinput>.  Whitespace is
   significant, translators should be able to cut-n-paste the changes.

Haven't done the whole file yet, since I ran out of time.  More to
follow.
2000-05-24 20:11:24 +00:00
Nik Clayton
37898e6f64 Re-write the three questions dealing with accessing the documentation
in other formats, including the obsolete information about needing to
do "col -b" and so on.

PR:             docs/13815
Submitted by:   wosch
2000-05-23 00:44:07 +00:00
Josef Karthauser
e56b300c56 Added an example showing how to get the game Asheron's Call working
with 'ppp -nat'.
2000-05-07 16:48:51 +00:00
Josef Karthauser
1c05556697 Put the ppp 'nat port' examples into alphabetical order. 2000-05-07 16:35:23 +00:00
Josef Karthauser
b294115949 Remove seemingly redundant trailing white space. 2000-05-07 16:15:45 +00:00
Nik Clayton
ceaadd8963 Added question about boot.flp hanging on an ASUS K7V motherboard, and the
workaround (disable BIOS boot sector virus check).

Submitted by:   Discussion on -stable

Add 4.0 to a few places.  Update the "Panic: can't mount root!" now we
have a new boot loader.  Add an "Error: can't find libc.so.4" and a
"How do I upgrade from 3.x to 4.x" question.

Fix a few typos in the PR.

PR:             docs/17861
Submitted by:   Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>

Add a little bit of extra information about chmod(1) on symlinks, so that
the questions are a little bit clearer.

Suggested by:   Suresh Bhushan <sbhushan@smartshop.com>

Reword the "snd0" answer, to make it clearer.

Submitted by:   gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de
2000-04-30 22:04:04 +00:00
Brian Somers
6a83a5e695 Add a PPPoEwithNAT tag 2000-04-10 13:32:27 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
84fa39c603 * Reflect 4.x branch creation.
* Reflect current version shift: 4 -> 5
* Fix few URLs:
  . releng30.freebsd.org -> releng3.freebsd.org
  . ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-CURRENT -> ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current
* Point few man.cgi's links to correct man section
2000-04-03 12:01:33 +00:00
Brian Somers
9ffffe11ab Use ppp -nat, not ppp -alias (which is now depricated) 2000-04-03 09:36:51 +00:00
Brian Somers
73b282ac14 Talk about why Windows boxes talking through a PPPoE/NAT gateway fail to
download data properly.

Thanks to: Michael Wozniak <mwozniak@netcom.ca>
2000-04-03 09:36:31 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
d520e230ac Multiprocessing only has 1 'c'
Nodded at by: asmodai
2000-03-25 21:09:34 +00:00
John Baldwin
66be53c66d Amend the section on wheeled mice in X to include a tutorial on installing
and configuring the imwheel port.  Also, add a man-ref entry for imwheel(1).

Reviewed by:	chris, jim
2000-03-09 05:52:04 +00:00
Nik Clayton
417532d053 Describe how to use Windows(tm) keys for something useful in X.
PR:             docs/16841
Submitted by:   Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
2000-03-07 13:47:55 +00:00
John Baldwin
467e5519be Add in a missing question mark.
PR:		docs/16943
Submitted by:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
2000-02-24 18:28:20 +00:00
Jim Mock
0c3c2b9a7b Tons of whitespace changes to the 'Preface' only (so far). This whole
document is pretty messy WRT formatting.. I'll be reformatting the rest
of it eventually.  The preface is almost readable now :-)
2000-02-18 02:27:29 +00:00
Jim Mock
c43ea25eea Add/update a few bits of information, mostly keyboard and mouse related.
From the PR:

  o Update mouse support description.
  o Add USB keyboard and mouse items.
  o Update moused and the X server setting.
  o Update xdm setting.

PR:		15300
Submitted by:	yokota
2000-02-17 21:13:20 +00:00
Jim Mock
31f286152f Replace a " with &quot;. While I'm at it, replace a few sets of `` or ''
with &ldquo; and &rdquo;.

PR:		16560
Submitted by:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
2000-02-14 21:14:49 +00:00
Jim Mock
eab2aaeb1b Add <filename></filename> around /etc/hosts and put a period at the end
of the same sentence.

PR:		16706
Submitted by:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
2000-02-14 21:03:30 +00:00
Jim Mock
5cbfd521ab Fix my stupidity from last commit. Move the &rdquo; inside the question
mark.
2000-02-14 20:58:59 +00:00
Jim Mock
e93334e992 Fix a typo..
``/dev/bpf0: ...."? -> &ldquo;/dev/bpf0: ....&rdquo;?

PR:		16559
Submitted by:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
2000-02-14 20:57:05 +00:00
Nik Clayton
464eeda1d4 1. Update the example showing how to extract sendmail from the scontrib
tarball.

PR:             docs/15697
Submitted by:   alex@frustum.clara.co.uk

While I'm in here, fix up the rest of the markup for this question.
Translation teams:  There were some white space changes, but only in
the <programlisting> or <screen> elements.  You can safely cut and paste
these sections in to your translations without needing to translate them.

2. Add a "Why is /bin/sh so minimal?" question, with an answer from
   Garrett Wollman.

3. Include a link to xfce in the "Where can I get CDE?" question, and
   mention that both KDE and xfce are in the ports tree.

Submitted by:   Jerason Banes <jbanes@accelgen.com>

4. Delete the word "open" from "The Problem Report database of all open
   user change requests..." as closed reports can be viewed as well.
2000-02-14 01:22:05 +00:00
Peter Wemm
af1a8b8612 Change www.freebsd.org/~user to people.FreeBSD.org/~user - the days of
the former are numbered.  There are still plenty of days left, but don't
add more.
2000-02-08 19:39:12 +00:00
Tom Hukins
cb73b8bbf7 Remove unnecessary " character
PR:		docs/16558
Submitted by:	Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
2000-02-07 21:41:36 +00:00
Neil Blakey-Milner
78a51e0eab Fix another link, much like he previous commit.
PR:		16327
Submitted by:	John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
2000-01-24 14:07:54 +00:00
Neil Blakey-Milner
e61bca89cb Correct link to ethernet card section of hardware list in install
chapter in the handbook.

PR:		16327
Submitted by:	John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
2000-01-24 14:04:05 +00:00
Nik Clayton
7d93d4f884 Update some links from 3.3 to 3.4, as necessary. 1999-12-21 01:18:58 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
b02ca1e5cf Change the ATI Mach64/XFree entry to actually reflect reality. XFree
supports this card for quite some time now.
1999-12-18 17:53:20 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
baf6d86f6e Change the FAQ entry about the bootdisks to more actively reflect reality.
Discussed with: jhb
1999-12-17 15:41:04 +00:00
Nik Clayton
47be6dbf71 Pull in the man-ref entities so things like &man.make.1; work. 1999-12-16 11:13:07 +00:00
Nik Clayton
92cd1613b3 Update the information about building a debugging kernel. Remove the
individual steps, and replace with "make install".  Update the following
note to explain that kernel is installed, while kernel.debug remains as
a source of debugging symbols for gdb(1).

PR:             docs/14426
Submitted by:   Bruce Mah <bmah@acm.org>
1999-12-16 01:58:47 +00:00
Nik Clayton
cc68991e45 Correct a few 'sd' occurences that should have been 'da'.
PR:             docs/12988
Submitted by:   chris@calldei.com
1999-12-14 17:01:19 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e6eec96e3e Update the Motif entry. Apps2go now sells both i386 and Alpha versions.
Both in development and runtime editions.  (lowered prices too)
1999-11-25 09:08:54 +00:00
Nik Clayton
b90ea8b776 * Add reference to 3.X in <title> and <abstract>
* -stable -> -STABLE
   * -current -> -CURRENT
   * Update 3.0/3.2 entries to 3.3 or 3.X as appropriate
   * .x -> .X (i.e., 3.x -> 3.X)
   * Update entries to correspond to new directory structure on ftp site
   * Removed reference to RELENG_2_ snapshots, which no longer exist
   * Add reference to allscreens_flags="-m on" for moused
   * Note that 3.3-RELEASE has 8 virtual terminals by default

Submitter sent the original PR, Jim Mock added to it, I cleaned up a
couple of bits and pieces.

PR:             docs/13949
Submitted by:   Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, jim
1999-11-14 18:07:39 +00:00
Jim Mock
51187d0ec3 Update IRC channel information. Also changed <filename></filename>
to <hostid></hostid> around the irc server hostnames and removed the
entry for irc.FreeBSD.org since it's essentially dead.

PR:		14733
Submitted by:	Dan Langille <dan@freebsddiary.org>
1999-11-13 00:25:00 +00:00
Chris Costello
4c67dfce8f Rename "rundos" to "doscmd" as it should have long, long ago. 1999-11-12 04:36:42 +00:00
Nik Clayton
121bfa3885 Mention the kernel config options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT and
PCVT_CTRL_ALT_DEL when talking about how to prevent the
Vulcan nerve pinch.  Minor reformatting applied to
submission.

Submitted by:   Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
1999-11-01 19:24:31 +00:00