entries that were removed have existed (largely unchanged) since 2001
and largely refer to problems for specific hardware devices that are
not in common use anymore.
notes to the installation chapter of the handbook. This is basically
a verbatim copy except for changes that were necessary to make the new
text build (consisted of removing a few entities and arch=
attributes).
Subsequent commits will remove questions that (in my opinion) are no
longer relevant or recent and adjust whitespace to match the rest of
this file.
in the "Troubleshooting" section. Moreover, the information provided
in the answers are actually given in more detail in the "Hardware
Requirements" and "Pre-Installation Tasks" sections.
Delete this Q&A section, but move its indexterm elements to other,
more appropriate parts of the chapter.
same information about repartitioning a disk holding DOS partitions.
The earlier (in the text) one is at a more logical place in the flow
of the text, and it also contains more up-to-date information. Add a
few more tidbits culled from the installation notes to the first
discussion about repartitioning and remove the second.
in this case we really should be using an entity that indicates a
variant of FreeBSD (such as &arch.sparc64; from the release notes),
not the commercial name of an architecture. However, adopt the
prevailing style of this file for consistency; we can sort this out
later.
- Add boot loader menu screenshot.
[1] This is for i386, this should be correct for amd64. I cannot really
update the alpha part (no alpha hardware under the hand).
And the 5.25" floppy/1.2 MB disk has been unpopular a lone times ago
in fact. Therefore, remove the 5.25" floppy/1.2 MB disk related stuff.
- Update the "Creating Installation Floppies" section.
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4.X 5.X and later
bin/bin.xx base/base.xx
contains a Minimal Configuration subsection explaining where one can
find information about the minimal requirements to install FreeBSD
(releng notes) and also provides a general sum up of this
information (this sum up mainly comes from the release notes, some
additional details and missing arch should be added in future).
- Merge the Supported Hardware section (2.10) with the new section (as
a subsection), it was not really useful to talk about supported
hardware at the end (or quite) of the installation chapter.
so that people viewing our documentation actually see something.
Probably these images need to be renamed to bsdlabel.
Reported by: Svilen Pavlov <silkye at gmail dot com> on www@
Nick <finwepalantir at yahoo dot com> on www@
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
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
After the 5.4 layout changes it makes no sense to keep this in a
combined table.
- Bring ISO names into the correct format.
- mini ISO -> miniinst ISO
- Note that the miniinst ISO is only available for versions prior to 5.4. (1)
- Limit a paragraph to 4.X only (not applicable to 5.X after the layout changes).
PR: 81328 (1)
Submitted by: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
