Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 00:07:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small suggestion/question about The Handbook (Sec 2.3.1) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1604030004100.55574@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <95642.1459645849@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <95642.1459645849@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <alpine.BSF.2.20.1603312259520.97764@wonkity.com>, > Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > >> The short version: >> >> Normal images are used to install FreeBSD on a BIOS computer or a >> computer with UEFI "CSM" enabled. >> >> Installing in UEFI mode requires a uefi image. >> >> That's not hard to include, but will it help the user to decide which >> image to download? > > Answer: A little. > > As I've already admitted, most of this UEFI stuff is rather entirely > opaque to me... undoubtedly because I haven't invested the time > necessary to scour online documents enough to understand it. Not > even marginally. (That's my fault, so mea cupla.) However given that > that FreeBSD Release Engineering folks are routinely going to all > the trouble to create these full alternate sets of install images, > it seems to me that it would be reasonable to invest at least a > small additional amount of effort to describe for us end lusers > the circumstances under which one of these alternate images would > be either necessary or useful. Right now, there's nothing. No > hints whatsoever. Don't say I never got you anything. :) Updated in r48525: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html#bsdinstall-installation-media It is an even more brief mention than discussed above, but can be expanded.
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