From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Oct 12 18:40: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from meow.bsdlabs.com (meow.bsdlabs.com [66.123.5.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC4C37B40A for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chern@localhost) by meow.bsdlabs.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f9D1drs05444; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chern@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: meow.bsdlabs.com: chern owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:39:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Chern Lee X-X-Sender: To: Jean-Francois Dockes Cc: Subject: Re: Updated 'diskless operation' section for the handbook In-Reply-To: <200110121003.f9CA37p10022@hautmedoc.dockes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've committed your update, thanks a lot for the submission! - chern On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: > > I recently configured a diskless FreeBSD machine, and I found the > handbook section to be outdated to the point of irrelevance. > > I wrote an updated version, which I hereby submit for review, as suggested > by the documentation project 'Submitting documentation' section. > > I hope that the text is mostly technically correct. At least, the things I > describe work for me, with a 4.4-STABLE system, using the standard rc > files, and they are consistent with any recent information I could find on > the subject. In any case it can't be *less* helpful than the old, netboot > based, version. > > The text will certainly require some amount of translation from > 'french english' to the real thing, and a lot of style editing. > > The document can be found at > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/patches/diskless.html > > 'chapter.sgml', in the same directory, has the docbook source. > > I am eagerly waiting for comments. > > Jean-Francois Dockes > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message