Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:45:46 GMT From: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/174125: [patch] faq: remove boot-floppy-strangeness question Message-ID: <201212041945.qB4Jjkjp072296@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201212041950.qB4Jo0gO041385@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>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:
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