Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:13:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r51297 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201712120713.vBC7DRfu012539@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Tue Dec 12 07:13:26 2017 New Revision: 51297 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51297 Log: no-install-cdrom: remove FAQ about IDE drives I have not seen an IDE drive in many years on a new system. If we want to keep this information it should be be documented in a better place than a long list of questions that users tend not to read. 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 Tue Dec 12 07:04:11 2017 (r51296) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Dec 12 07:13:26 2017 (r51297) @@ -1273,30 +1273,6 @@ </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question xml:id="no-install-cdrom"> - <para>I booted from a CD, but the install program - says no CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured - CD-ROM drive. Many PCs now ship with the CD-ROM as the - slave device on the secondary IDE controller, with no - master device on that controller. This is illegal - according to the ATAPI specification, but &windows; plays - fast and loose with the specification, and the BIOS - ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to - see the CD-ROM to boot from it, but why &os; cannot see it - to complete the install.</para> - - <para>Reconfigure the system so that the CD-ROM is either - the master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, - or make sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller - that also has a master device.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question xml:id="need-complete-sources"> <para>Do I need to install the source?</para> </question>
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