From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 18 4:28:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECCA37B408; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7IBShu16477; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:28:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7IBSg915832; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:28:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200108181128.f7IBSg915832@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nik Clayton Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml In-Reply-To: Message from Nik Clayton of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:06:34 BST." <20010818110634.L59279@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:28:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Nik Clayton wrote: > > nik 2001/08/17 16:21:43 PDT > >=20 > > Modified files: > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml=20 > > Log: > > Stand on Randy Pratt's shoulders, and add to the copy describing the pr= > ocess > > of preparing to install FreeBSD, and the actions up to and including the > > kernel device configuration section. > > I'd like some feedback on this please. In particular, > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.h= > tml > > and section 2.3.2. There's a discussion on devices, IRQs, and ports in > there that I'm not 100% sure about. While it doesn't need to be a long > technical discursion, could someone take a look at it and make sure that > there are no glaring errors in what I've written. Well, maybe s/CDROM/CDROM or DVD/ may be better ? :*) Also (para 3 of 2.3.2), I think the device probe problem is an ISA limitation rather than a PC limitation. Interestingly enough, some of the embedded screen shots overlap on my laptop - running -current with linux-netscape47-communicator. > Ta. > > N > --=20 > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message