svn commit: r53609 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Mark Linimon
linimon at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 20 05:42:00 UTC 2019
Author: linimon
Date: Wed Nov 20 05:41:59 2019
New Revision: 53609
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53609
Log:
Start rototilling out answers that have been stale for the better part
of this century. At this point they are just embarrasing.
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 Wed Nov 20 05:30:16 2019 (r53608)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Nov 20 05:41:59 2019 (r53609)
@@ -1202,18 +1202,6 @@
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="need-to-run">
- <para>What are the minimum requirements to run &os;?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>&os; requires a 486 or better PC,
- 64 MB or more of RAM, and at least 1.1 GB of hard
- disk space.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
<question xml:id="custom-boot-floppy">
<para>How can I make my own custom release or install
disk?</para>
@@ -1421,10 +1409,7 @@
<qandaentry>
<question xml:id="memory-upper-limitation">
- <para>What are the limits for memory? Does &os; support
- more than 4 GB of memory
- (RAM)? More than 16 GB? More than
- 48 GB?</para>
+ <para>What are the limits for memory?</para>
</question>
<answer>
@@ -1570,89 +1555,21 @@
</qandaset>
</sect1>
- <sect1 xml:id="compatibility-drives">
- <title>Hard Drives, Tape Drives, and CD and DVD Drives</title>
+ <sect1 xml:id="compatibility-peripherals">
+ <title>Peripherals</title>
<qandaset>
<qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="supported-hard-drives">
- <para>What kind of hard drives does &os; support?</para>
+ <question xml:id="supported-peripherals">
+ <para>What kind of peripherals does &os; support?</para>
</question>
<answer>
- <para>&os; supports EIDE, SATA, SCSI, and SAS drives (with
- a compatible controller; see the next section), and all
- drives using the original <quote>Western Digital</quote>
- interface (MFM, RLL, ESDI, and of course IDE). A few
- ESDI controllers that use proprietary interfaces may not
- work: stick to WD1002/3/6/7 interfaces and
- clones.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="supported-scsi-controllers">
- <para>Which SCSI or SAS controllers are supported?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
<para>See the complete list in the Hardware Notes for &os;
<link
xlink:href="&rel.current.hardware;">&rel.current;</link>
or <link
xlink:href="&rel2.current.hardware;">&rel2.current;</link>.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="tape-support">
- <para>What types of tape drives are supported?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>&os; supports all standard SCSI tape
- interfaces.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="tape-changer-support">
- <para>Does &os; support tape changers?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>&os; supports SCSI changers using the &man.ch.4;
- device and the &man.chio.1; command. The details of how
- to control the changer can be found in
- &man.chio.1;.</para>
-
- <para>While
- <application>AMANDA</application> and some other
- products already understands changers, other
- applications only know how to move a tape from one point
- to another. In this case, keep track of which slot a
- tape is in and which slot the tape currently in the
- drive needs to go back to.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question xml:id="supported-cdrom-drives">
- <para>Which CD-ROM and CD-RW drives are supported by
- &os;?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>Any SCSI drive connected to a supported controller
- is supported. Most ATAPI compatible IDE CD-ROMs are
- supported.</para>
-
- <para>&os; supports any ATAPI-compatible IDE CD-R or CD-RW
- drive.</para>
-
- <para>&os; also supports any SCSI CD-R or CD-RW drives.
- Install the <package>sysutils/cdrtools</package> port or
- package, then use <command>cdrecord</command>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandaset>
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