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Jesus Rodriguez Cuesta
5b683465b8 Fix ftp path for 3.1-RELEASE 1999-03-20 14:35:14 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
546c55a617 Add entry about varying the size of the kernel address space. 1999-03-20 13:17:41 +00:00
Jesus Rodriguez Cuesta
50312aa0ae Fix typo "recoord" --> "record" 1999-03-20 12:40:32 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
76158cc799 The latest -stable release is 3.1, not 2.2.8. 1999-03-18 21:12:14 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
376c86a071 grammar error "uses" -> "use" 
PR:		docs/10539
Submitted by:	Tony Harverson <tony@beastie.cs.und.ac.za>
 1999-03-15 02:44:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
89314826cb When creating swap file, set permission bits to ensure its safety. 
Submitted by:	Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>
 1999-02-19 10:46:11 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
f6657d0434 Added an entry on the need for linking with -export-dynamic for 
dlopen(NULL, flags) to be useful.
 1999-02-17 03:08:21 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
bd46d71625 Add text to faq entry (id="ispmail") about delivering mail with sendmail 
on PPP start up.

Submitted by:	Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@pk.she.de>
		(on -doc.)
 1999-02-08 06:53:37 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb7573b716 Correct the rather interesting (mis)spelling of "distribution". 1999-02-07 17:04:49 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
69bc646870 Add an entry explaining the meaning of the acronym "BSD". 
Coined by:	David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
 1999-02-07 11:21:50 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
646dfc8233 Update sections relating to swap handling 1999-02-06 19:03:54 +00:00
Mike Smith
8c670928e2 Clarify the situation with "dangerously dedicated" disks some more. 
Remove a lot of patronising twaddle and try to help avoid use of DD mode
wherever possible.
 1999-02-05 01:48:47 +00:00
Brian Somers
088ad7e8b1 How to diagnose a hung ppp connection. 1999-01-31 18:58:22 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
c97565d4fd FTP server reorganization. 1999-01-29 18:37:32 +00:00
Nik Clayton
b6560e943d Shift information about the NTFS driver from misc.sgml to admin.sgml, 
under the "foreign filesystems" question.

Prompted by: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
 1999-01-28 00:00:50 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
cae59a0345 Correct URL references. 
Submitted By:		Mike Jenkins <mjenkins@carp.gbr.epa.gov>
 1999-01-27 21:50:19 +00:00
Ade Barkah
88e91242b7 Added missing '=' (i.e., "name=...") within the bpf section. 1999-01-27 10:01:08 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
9f71bb889d Correct typo. 
PR:		docs/9678
Submitted by:	Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw>
 1999-01-27 06:15:51 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
85ddc40705 Typo (missing '.'), grammatical errors. 
PR:		docs/9681, docs/9683
Submitted by:	Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw>
 1999-01-27 04:02:25 +00:00
Nik Clayton
1bf726ea10 Added question re: mounting NTFS filesystem, and a pointer to Mark 
Ovens' tutorial.

PR: docs/9687
Submitted by: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
 1999-01-27 00:11:44 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
5e7aa9ad7e Grammer nit: "Connect 2" -> "Connect two" 1999-01-26 21:27:30 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
448c5c392d Answer the often asked 'bpf' questions. 
Requested By:	some people on -net
 1999-01-26 21:25:11 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
f56a255733 Forgotten perl option in dos2unix 1999-01-25 17:50:16 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6c18ae4980 Sync with the 3.0-stable branch event. 1999-01-21 01:49:15 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7d5db45b44 small tweak to the wording. 1999-01-19 04:53:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f6c167c0a8 Update IRC descriptions for those weenies who haven't yet figured out 
that IRC is a free-for-all.
 1999-01-19 04:43:10 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
c5ab5a1e9b Add alternative perl-free script for reformatting DOS text files. 
Submitted by:	David Jones <drj@helper.demon.co.uk> on -doc
Reviewed by:	jkoshy
 1999-01-19 03:05:44 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e8c8f0f2a9 The days of 3.0-BETA and a.out kernels are long gone. 1999-01-18 20:12:22 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
d7b69d4c2d Typo in hyperlink for Bill Paul. 
It sure would be nice to be able to use the &a.foo entities in the FAQ.
That would make for some funky dependencies, though. Oh well.
 1999-01-12 20:22:13 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
479f6c95d3 URL typo. 
Reported by: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>
 1999-01-12 00:49:15 +00:00
Steve Price
b088eb8a74 Spell responsibility correctly. 
PR:		9417
Submitted by:	Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@Terry.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw>
 1999-01-10 18:01:45 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
dea3d4b2c2 Be less vague about what "recent" means. 1998-12-06 05:14:56 +00:00
Doug White
9f73002a0c Add questions for: 
1.  Adding mre pty's
2.  Solutions to the 'calcru' problems under -current
    Submitted by:	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
 1998-12-05 00:24:11 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
723d065c2e (1) -stable is now 2.2.8, released in December 1998 
(2) Fix spelling error that ispell (grrr) didn't catch.

PR:		docs/8964
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
		Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
 1998-12-04 22:17:36 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
5e6f9fef63 Accurately describe the purpose of EFNet's #FreeBSD. 
OK'd by:	Nik
 1998-12-04 20:37:13 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
c5c26ff102 Update another link for 3.0.1. Has the FAQ gone inactive again? 
I ask only so that I'll know whether it's appropriate to call for FAQ
sweepers again.
 1998-12-04 08:23:36 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2ebdba57ee Update various citations. 1998-12-03 13:47:28 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8a6c2c722f Spelling fix. 
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
PR:		8791
 1998-11-23 04:40:33 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
536e63daa0 Fix various spelling errors. 
Submitted by:	Ming-I Hsieh <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
PR:		8792
 1998-11-22 14:03:32 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
c50230f75f Fix confusion between the maximal possible number of sectors per track, 
and the maximal possible number of heads.
Submitted by:	na354@fen.baynet.de (Josef Kraus)
 1998-11-19 19:51:54 +00:00
Doug White
497749de04 Add info for bad block remapping on ESDI drives. 
Submitted by:	 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
 1998-11-18 21:40:32 +00:00
Doug White
f33e2614ae Add an entry for bandwidth managers. 
Submitted by:	 George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 1998-11-18 21:39:43 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
abb923bb10 Update architecture information in light of alpha port. 1998-11-08 11:47:01 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2c23ad9451 prune a double entry. 1998-11-08 11:04:57 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
4af8cf98a0 Spelling fixes and typos. 
Submitted by: PA <PA@FreeBSD.ee.ntu.edu.tw> via wosch@freebsd.org to the
	freebsd-doc list.
 1998-11-02 03:20:46 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
f48722c8d0 Added a section how to connect 2 FreeBSD boxes over a parallel line (PLIP) 1998-10-30 23:15:03 +00:00
Brian Somers
0d7ea4b7ce Mention that the ``first connection'' problem is fixed in the 
latest version of ppp.
 1998-10-22 18:14:54 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
33f0e25d0c Make the link to the search page a full link so it 
will work from a local copy of the FAQ.
 1998-10-15 20:24:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
e45caebf62 Cut and paste my ELF explaination from my -current post a few days 
ago.  SGMLify it (I hope), word smith minor nits and try to catch all
my typos.  Those more qualified than I at SGML and spelling should
check to make sure that I've not fu-bar'd anything.
 1998-10-08 00:23:37 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
78bb58718f Update CAM URL. 1998-09-29 11:49:53 +00:00