Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:36:43 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r40736 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1301251236140.9389@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <201301241734.r0OHYuJe022211@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201301241734.r0OHYuJe022211@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Eitan Adler wrote: > 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 Was the removal of boot-floppy-strangeness intentional as well? It looks quite poorly written regardless... -Ben > > 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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