svn commit: r40112 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 20 18:25:09 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Tue Nov 20 18:25:09 2012
New Revision: 40112
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40112
Log:
The disk-manager question is irrelevant, no one uses disk managers anymore.
Noted by: scottl
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Nov 20 18:25:06 2012 (r40111)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Nov 20 18:25:09 2012 (r40112)
@@ -1476,33 +1476,6 @@
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
- <question id="disk-manager">
- <para>Is &os; compatible with any disk managers?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>&os; recognizes the <application>Ontrack Disk
- Manager</application> and makes allowances for it. Other disk
- managers are not supported.</para>
-
- <para>If you just want to use the disk with &os; you do not
- need a disk manager. Just configure the disk for as much
- space as the BIOS can deal with (usually
- 504 megabytes), and &os; should figure out how much
- space you really have. If you are using an old disk with an
- MFM controller, you may need to explicitly tell &os; how
- many cylinders to use.</para>
-
- <para>If you want to use the disk with &os; and another
- operating system, you may be able to do without a disk
- manager: just make sure the &os; boot partition and the
- slice for the other operating system are in the first 1024
- cylinders. If you are reasonably careful, a
- 20 megabyte boot partition should be plenty.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
<question id="missing-os">
<para>When I boot &os; for the first time after install I get
<errorname>Missing Operating System</errorname>. What is
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