Update installation chapter references, and remove references to the
install chapter covering 8.x.
Update to r47233:
Be consistent about the blocksize (1m instead of 64k)
with the instructions in the release notes when describing how to
burn the memstick image to a memory stick.
Update to r46774:
Update link to the Plop boot manager.
Update to r46402:
Minimum Hardware Requirements: hardware requirements
Point people directly to the website and skip having people check for
HARDWARE.txt on media they likely haven't downloaded yet.
Update to r45127:
Remove dash from example partition label and clarify wording. A dash
can be used in a partition label, but not in a UFS label. Even though
users are told not to use identical labels, we can remove one source
of potential confusion by sticking to the lowest common denominator.
Update the section on using dd(1) to write the USB stick. Add a note on
using sync(8) on Linux, and fix some terminology.
Update to r44914:
Finish editorial review of install chapter.
Finish editorial review of Post-Install and Troubleshooting sections.
Update to r44906:
Editorial review of some more post-install config screens.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7321
Editorial review of Allocating Disk Space and Committing to
the Install sections.
Ignore Designing the Partition Layout for now as it belongs elsewhere.
Prep work for boot chapter.
Add missing items from what is covered in this chapter list.
Add note about GPT and EFI/UEFI.
Some shuffling of headings to improve flow.
Editorial review of Prepare the Installation Media section.
Describe the available installation files.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7276
Editorial review of Pre-installation tasks.
Format these tasks as a procedure.
Move disk size recommendations to similar paragraph in minimum
hardware section.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7235
Do not use a potentially symlink'd path in /etc/exports example
/home is commonly created by the installer as a symlink to /usr/home, and
symbolic links are not permitted in these directives, per exports(5).
Remove 23.3. Portsnap: a Ports Collection Update Tool as most of this content is already in
Procedure 5.1 of 5.5. Using the Ports Collection.
The next commit will ensure that Procedure 5.1 is not missing any pertinent details that were covered by this section.
Update Virtualization chapter:
Remove hidden and outdated Xen section.
Move sect2 FreeBSD as a guest entries to sect1 entries. They are too
detailed to be sect2, and do not show in the TOC that way.
Update the VirtualBox guest additions section a bit, mostly about X.
Document the zfs method of remounting your rootfs during single user mode
to allow mergemaster to do its business. Everyone seems to know how to do
this, but it would be nice to let new folks have a clue.
