Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:34:56 +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: r40736 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201301241734.r0OHYuJe022211@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Thu Jan 24 17:34:55 2013 New Revision: 40736 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40736 Log: Remove install-bad-blocks: 95% bogus, user-controlled bad block mapping stopped being a thing about 20 years ago Noted by: scottl Approved by: bcr (mentor, implicit) 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 Thu Jan 24 15:03:30 2013 (r40735) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Thu Jan 24 17:34:55 2013 (r40736) @@ -1382,41 +1382,6 @@ </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="install-bad-blocks"> - <para>Can I install on a disk with bad blocks?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>You can, but it is a bad idea.</para> - - <para>If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE - drive, chances are the drive is going to die very soon (the - drive's internal remapping functions are no longer - sufficient to fix the bad blocks, which means the disk is - heavily corrupted); we suggest you buy a new hard - drive.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> - <question id="boot-floppy-strangeness"> - <para>Strange things happen when I boot the install disk! - What is happening?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a - halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the - &os; installer, make sure that the SHA256 hash of - the image matches the one on the website. If you - accidently downloaded the disk image in binary (or - image) mode the will be corrupted. (Do not be embarrassed, - even the best of us have accidentally downloaded a binary - file in ASCII mode at least once!)</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="no-install-cdrom"> <para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program says no CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para>
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