From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 15:30:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11457 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA28890; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:59:08 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA03156; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:59:16 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:59:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990109095916.K96705@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:11:54AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 8:11:54 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 14:13:48 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> Dave Walton wrote: >>>> >>>> On 5 Jan 99, at 21:52, Graeme Tait wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>> The general consensus is that the man pages are a waste of space, and >>>>>> they make the book too heavy. The next edition won't have them. >>> >>> What plans do you have for the next edition, Greg?. Timescales, >>> changes etc? >> >> I'm hoping to have it out by April. I'm open to suggestions about >> what should be included. >> > > FWIW, I would suggest that large HD's (multi-GB), LBA, the infamous > 1024 cyl limit etc. are addressed. e.g. that you can install FreeBSD > above 1024 cyls on an (E)IDE disk using LBA and on SCSI if you boot > from the first partition with a boot mangler. The partition schemes in > the book only cover small disks IIRC. There's no distinction between small disks and large disks. The only problems are with the system BIOS. But booting in 3.0 is very different (and it still hasn't finished changing :-). This will definitely be a topic in the new edition. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message