docs/73760: 5.3-RELEASE and possibly older 5.x systems need 3 floppies to boot the installer

[Josh Paetzel]

>Number:         73760
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       5.3-RELEASE and possibly older 5.x systems need 3 floppies to boot the installer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 10 05:00:36 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Josh Paetzel
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


System: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov  7 18:09:19 UTC 2004
    jpaetzel at twinmp.tcbug.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP



>Description:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html doesn't take into account that 5.x systems need 3 floppies to boot.


>How-To-Repeat:


Read the handbook page.


>Fix:


--- chapter.diff begins here ---
--- chapter.sgml.old	Tue Nov  9 22:32:42 2004
+++ chapter.sgml	Tue Nov  9 22:41:57 2004
@@ -571,9 +571,14 @@
 	    The <filename>floppies/</filename> directory contains a number of
 	    different images, and the ones you will need to use depends on the
 	    version of FreeBSD you are installing, and in some cases, the
-	    hardware you are installing to.  In most cases you will just need
+	    hardware you are installing to.  If you are installing FreeBSD
+		4.x in most cases you will just need
 	    two files, <filename>kern.flp</filename> and
-	    <filename>mfsroot.flp</filename>.  Additional device drivers may
+	    <filename>mfsroot.flp</filename>.  If you are
+		installing FreeBSD 5.x in most cases you will need three
+		floppies, <filename>boot.flp</filename>,
+		<filename>kern1.flp</filename>, and
+		<filename>kern2.flp</filename> Additional device drivers may
 	    be necessary for some systems.  These drivers are provided
 	    on the <filename>drivers.flp</filename> image.  Check
 	    <filename>README.TXT</filename> in the same directory for the
--- chapter.diff ends here ---



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