svn commit: r46446 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler
Date: Fri Apr  3 15:02:31 2015
New Revision: 46446
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46446

Log:
  new users:
  	it seems unlikely that users new to FreeBSD will want to do any of
  		- use a floppy
  		- use DOS
  	and even using a tape drive and printing aren't common first tasks
  
  	remove this section

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml	Fri Apr  3 11:38:43 2015	(r46445)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml	Fri Apr  3 15:02:31 2015	(r46446)
@@ -602,93 +602,6 @@
       put a space after the comma, did you?)</para>
   </sect1>
 
-  <sect1 xml:id="printing-files-from-dos">
-    <title>Printing Files from DOS</title>
-
-    <para>At this point you probably do not have the printer working,
-      so here is a way to create a file from a manual page, move it to a
-      floppy, and then print it from DOS.  Suppose you want to read
-      carefully about changing permissions on files (pretty
-      important).  You can use <command>man chmod</command> to read
-      about it.  The command</para>
-
-    <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>man chmod | col -b > chmod.txt</userinput></screen>
-    </informalexample>
-
-    <para>will remove formatting codes and send the manual page to the
-      <filename>chmod.txt</filename> file instead of showing it on
-      your screen.  Now put a dos-formatted diskette in your floppy
-      drive <filename>a</filename>, <command>su</command> to <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, and type</para>
-
-    <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt</userinput></screen>
-    </informalexample>
-
-    <para>to mount the floppy drive on
-      <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
-
-    <para>Now (you no longer need to be <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, and you can type
-      <command>exit</command> to get back to being user jack) you can
-      go to the directory where you created
-      <filename>chmod.txt</filename> and copy the file to the floppy
-      with:</para>
-
-    <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cp chmod.txt /mnt</userinput></screen>
-    </informalexample>
-
-    <para>and use <command>ls /mnt</command> to get a directory
-      listing of <filename>/mnt</filename>, which should show the file
-      <filename>chmod.txt</filename>.</para>
-
-    <para>You might especially want to make a file from
-      <filename>/sbin/dmesg</filename> by typing</para>
-
-    <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>/sbin/dmesg > dmesg.txt</userinput></screen>
-    </informalexample>
-
-    <para>and copying <filename>dmesg.txt</filename> to the floppy.
-      <command>/sbin/dmesg</command> is the boot log record, and it is
-      useful to understand it because it shows what FreeBSD found when
-      it booted up.  If you ask questions on the &a.questions; or on a USENET
-      group—like <quote>FreeBSD is not finding my tape drive,
-      what do I do?</quote>—people will want to know what
-      <command>dmesg</command> has to say.</para>
-
-    <para>You can now unmount the floppy drive (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>) to get the
-      disk out with</para>
-
-    <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/umount /mnt</userinput></screen>
-    </informalexample>
-
-    <para>and reboot to go to DOS.  Copy these files to a DOS
-      directory, call them up with DOS EDIT, &windows; Notepad or
-      Wordpad, or a word processor, make a minor change so the file
-      has to be saved, and print as you normally would from DOS or
-      Windows.  Hope it works!  Manual pages come out best if printed
-      with the DOS <command>print</command> command.  (Copying files
-      from FreeBSD to a mounted DOS partition is in some cases still a
-      little risky.)</para>
-
-    <para>Getting the printer printing from FreeBSD involves creating
-      an appropriate entry in <filename>/etc/printcap</filename> and
-      creating a matching spool directory in
-      <filename>/var/spool/output</filename>.  If your printer is on
-      <hardware>lpt0</hardware> (what DOS calls
-      <hardware>LPT1</hardware>), you may only need to go to
-      <filename>/var/spool/output</filename> and (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>) create the
-      directory <filename>lpd</filename> by typing: <command>mkdir
-      lpd</command>, if it does not already exist.  Then the printer
-      should respond if it is turned on when the system is booted, and
-      <command>lp</command> or <command>lpr</command> should send a
-      file to the printer.  Whether or not the file actually prints
-      depends on configuring it, which is covered in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD
-      handbook.</link></para>
-  </sect1>
-
   <sect1 xml:id="other-useful-commands">
     <title>Other Useful Commands</title>