docs/174125: [patch] faq: remove boot-floppy-strangeness question

Derek Wood ddwood at highdensity.org
Tue Dec 4 19:50:00 UTC 2012


>Number:         174125
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] faq: remove boot-floppy-strangeness question
>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:   Tue Dec 04 19:50:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Derek Wood
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The attached patch removes the boot-floppy-strangeness question in the FAQ as per the ThwackaFAQ entry on the FreeBSD wiki.
>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..4caa8ff 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -1389,46 +1389,6 @@
       </qandaentry>
 
       <qandaentry>
-	<question id="boot-floppy-strangeness">
-	  <para>Strange things happen when I boot the install floppy!
-	    What is happening?</para>
-	</question>
-
-	<answer>
-	  <para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a
-	    halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the
-	    install floppy, here are three questions to ask
-	    yourself:</para>
-
-	  <orderedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Did you use a new, freshly-formatted, error-free
-		floppy (preferably a brand-new one straight out of the
-		box, as opposed to the magazine cover disk that has been
-		lying under the bed for the last three years)?</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Did you download the floppy image in binary (or
-		image) mode?  (do not be embarrassed, even the best of us
-		have accidentally downloaded a binary file in ASCII mode
-		at least once!)</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>If you are using &windows; 95 or
-		&windows; 98 did you run <command>fdimage</command>
-		or <command>rawrite</command> in pure DOS mode?  These
-		operating systems can interfere with programs that write
-		directly to hardware, which the disk creation program
-		does; even running it inside a DOS shell in the GUI can
-		cause this problem.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </orderedlist>
-	</answer>
-      </qandaentry>
-
-      <qandaentry>
 	<question id="no-install-cdrom">
 	  <para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program
 	    says no CD-ROM is found.  Where did it go?</para>


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


More information about the freebsd-doc mailing list