docs/174113: [patch] faq: update #floppy-download
Derek Wood
ddwood at highdensity.org
Tue Dec 4 16:10:01 UTC 2012
>Number: 174113
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] faq: update #floppy-download
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 04 16:10:01 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Derek Wood
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>Description:
The attached patch updates the floppy-download question in the faq with the following:
- change the "Get FreeBSD Page" hyperlink to "Getting FreeBSD" to match the page's title
- correct the "memstick.iso" text in the download media format to .img
- remove pc98 floppy instructions
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index 81f334b..d55835c 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@
<answer>
<para>On the
- <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Get &os; page</ulink>
- select <literal>[iso]</literal> next to the
+ <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Getting &os;</ulink>
+ page select <literal>[iso]</literal> next to the
architecture you want to use.</para>
<para>Any of the following can be used:</para>
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@
</row>
<row>
- <entry><filename>memstick.iso</filename></entry>
+ <entry><filename>memstick.img</filename></entry>
<entry>A bootable image sufficient for copying to a
USB stick.</entry>
</row>
@@ -1190,14 +1190,6 @@
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
- <para>&arch.pc98; users require three floppy images:
- <filename>floppies/boot.flp</filename>,
- <filename>floppies/kern1.flp</filename>, and
- <filename>floppies/kern2.flp</filename>. These images
- need
- to be copied onto floppies by tools like
- &man.dd.1;.</para>
-
<para>Full instructions on this procedure and a little bit
more about installation issues in general can be found in
the <ulink
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