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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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