From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 19:48:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0895016A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:48:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F05A43D46 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:48:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD6B930544; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:47:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org ([217.148.169.59]) by localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73647-02; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:47:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43B831F1.5070006@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:48:01 +0100 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com References: <20051231012535.25010.qmail@web32913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051231012535.25010.qmail@web32913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the elvandar.org maildomain Cc: freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some documentation issues on FreeBSD-6.0R X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:48:01 -0000 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com schreef: > Hi; > > I recently installed FreeBSD/AMD64 6.0R on my box and I thought i should share > some issues on FreeBSD's documentation. > > - The installation documentation mentions the use of floppy drives (Q1.5.2) but > there are no floppies for AMD64. > > - it also mentions wine: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/installation-amd64.html#Q1.6.5. > Unfortunately the wine port doesn't build on amd64 > > - The moused documentation is unclear.. I found it difficult to find out that I > had to add "-z 4" to moused to get the wheel recognized. USB is not an option > when configuring moused with sysinstall. > > - When installing a "client" firewall, it ended up being key to open DHCP > access to the net. Perhaps it should be added to the default "client" config in > rc.firewall. > > - We should probably have a section on resizing ntfs filesystems. I had to > download a linux "live CD" for this :(. > > I hope mentioning this details helps improve (even more) the current > documentation but, in any case, thanks for the great job you've done. > > > cheers, > > Pedro. > Pedro, Thanks for the feedback, i will keep track of the things you denoted and hope to be able to work them out at some point with the rest of the doc@ team. As i see it now you seem to have some valid point that we need to take into account. Again thanks for taking the time to deliver this feedback! Cheers, Remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org