Fix some problems/hickups in the "Prepare Boot Media" section.
Problem found by: Taras (ds ett ukrhub dott net)
Patch provided by: Warren Block (wblock ett wonkity dott com)
Switch 'Prepare the Memory Stick' to a more generic title. Move the dd
based FreeBSD-specific instructions to a separate <procedure> and add a
second procedure, that is more useful to Windows users. The
instructions for Windows refer to the 'Image Writer' utility, including
its download location.
PR: docs/154837
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
which is a remain from the past.
- Selecting Country Menu description is valid for 7.X and 8.X, so remove
"For &os; 6.2 and later," from mention of Selecting Contry Menu.
Reviewed by: blackend
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
displayed by sysinstall(8);
- Update the section "2.12 Advanced Installation Guide" about how to
modify installation media to boot into a serial console. Give
example for the USB memstick and for the installation CD. Put me as
responsible of the update, Valentino is not the person to blame.
section (s/install-floppies/install-boot-media) to ease the read of
the file;
- Some rewordings for i386 boot part to mention USB stick media. I let
floppies part since it's still correct for 7.X;
- Updates of some boot messages (still a work in progress);
- Add a screenshot for the keyboard selection at sysinstall(8) start
which occurs if United States is not selected for the country.
PR: docs/145023
Submitted by: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>
- Update the list of available install ISO images.
- Remove 6.X information as the handbook says "I cover 7.3 and 8.1".
- Sync the description with the information we provide in the release announcements.
Original patch provided by: Glen Barber (glen dott j dott barber ett gmail dott com)
reader that installation floppies are no longer available for 8.X and
above.
PR: docs/147347 and docs/149230
Patch submitted by: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
FreeBSD 8.0. Therefore, remove last vestiges of SLIP
from this part of the handbook.
Note that the screenshots will be updated separately,
thanks to blackend@.
PR: docs/145028
Submitted by: Aiza (aiza21 at comclark dot com)
Approved by: jkois (mentor)
that is default for a long time now (people willing to change and use a
custom newfs, should know some more information upfront by reading the
manual page of newfs).
&os;/&arch.platform; and we had + Architecture for AMD64, which
makes it different.
Correct a little typo as well.
Found by translating the chapter for The Dutch Documentation Project
- Inform the reader that the default sizes provided by the Auto Default
mode are based on the size of the disk (present in the machine).
(2 related screenshots will be updated in few hours)
Requested by: many
during Standard installation but can be accessible at the end of the
installation procedure. So, let's move that part at the end of the
installation procedure. If I cut&paste that part, cvs diff gives me a
very garbled diff (which can be very hard to read) for an unknown reason,
so I'll just cut that part in the present commit and I'll re-add it in
the next commit.
