Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:14:05 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org> To: "FreeBSD gnats submit" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: docs/81328: Update the handbook, the mini-iso will no longer be available as of 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <1116641645.0@twinmp.tcbug.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200505210220.j4L2K57P049047@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81328
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Update the handbook, the mini-iso will no longer be available as of 5.4-RELEASE
>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: Sat May 21 02:20:05 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Josh Paetzel
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 #3: Tue May 17 20:56:39 CDT 2005
jpaetzel@twinmp.tcbug.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TWINMP
>Description:
[patch] 5.4-RELEASE no longer has the 'mini-iso' available as a download. Added a note to this effect in the handbook.
>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html section 2.13.1
>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml.old Fri May 20 21:01:26 2005
+++ chapter.sgml Fri May 20 21:06:45 2005
@@ -5265,8 +5265,11 @@
ISO image, or the image of disc one. Do not download both of them,
since the disc one image contains everything that the mini ISO
image contains.</para>
-
- <para>Use the mini ISO if Internet access is cheap for you. It will
+
+ <note><para>The mini ISO is only available for releases prior to
+ 5.4</para></note>
+ <para>Use the mini ISO if Internet access is cheap for you. It
+will
let you install FreeBSD, and you can then install third party
packages by downloading them using the ports/packages system (see
<xref linkend="ports">) as
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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