From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 3 15:02:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91CB5945; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 727B260C; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t33F2WCR008690; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:02:32 GMT (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t33F2W9a008689; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:02:32 GMT (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201504031502.t33F2W9a008689@svn.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: svn.freebsd.org: eadler set sender to eadler@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:02:32 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46446 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:02:32 -0000 Author: eadler Date: Fri Apr 3 15:02:31 2015 New Revision: 46446 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46446 Log: new users: it seems unlikely that users new to FreeBSD will want to do any of - use a floppy - use DOS and even using a tape drive and printing aren't common first tasks remove this section Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml Fri Apr 3 11:38:43 2015 (r46445) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml Fri Apr 3 15:02:31 2015 (r46446) @@ -602,93 +602,6 @@ put a space after the comma, did you?) - - Printing Files from DOS - - At this point you probably do not have the printer working, - so here is a way to create a file from a manual page, move it to a - floppy, and then print it from DOS. Suppose you want to read - carefully about changing permissions on files (pretty - important). You can use man chmod to read - about it. The command - - - &prompt.user; man chmod | col -b > chmod.txt - - - will remove formatting codes and send the manual page to the - chmod.txt file instead of showing it on - your screen. Now put a dos-formatted diskette in your floppy - drive a, su to root, and type - - - &prompt.root; /sbin/mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt - - - to mount the floppy drive on - /mnt. - - Now (you no longer need to be root, and you can type - exit to get back to being user jack) you can - go to the directory where you created - chmod.txt and copy the file to the floppy - with: - - - &prompt.user; cp chmod.txt /mnt - - - and use ls /mnt to get a directory - listing of /mnt, which should show the file - chmod.txt. - - You might especially want to make a file from - /sbin/dmesg by typing - - - &prompt.user; /sbin/dmesg > dmesg.txt - - - and copying dmesg.txt to the floppy. - /sbin/dmesg is the boot log record, and it is - useful to understand it because it shows what FreeBSD found when - it booted up. If you ask questions on the &a.questions; or on a USENET - group—like FreeBSD is not finding my tape drive, - what do I do?—people will want to know what - dmesg has to say. - - You can now unmount the floppy drive (as root) to get the - disk out with - - - &prompt.root; /sbin/umount /mnt - - - and reboot to go to DOS. Copy these files to a DOS - directory, call them up with DOS EDIT, &windows; Notepad or - Wordpad, or a word processor, make a minor change so the file - has to be saved, and print as you normally would from DOS or - Windows. Hope it works! Manual pages come out best if printed - with the DOS print command. (Copying files - from FreeBSD to a mounted DOS partition is in some cases still a - little risky.) - - Getting the printer printing from FreeBSD involves creating - an appropriate entry in /etc/printcap and - creating a matching spool directory in - /var/spool/output. If your printer is on - lpt0 (what DOS calls - LPT1), you may only need to go to - /var/spool/output and (as root) create the - directory lpd by typing: mkdir - lpd, if it does not already exist. Then the printer - should respond if it is turned on when the system is booted, and - lp or lpr should send a - file to the printer. Whether or not the file actually prints - depends on configuring it, which is covered in the FreeBSD - handbook. - - Other Useful Commands