From owner-freebsd-doc Fri May 31 12:40:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A02A37B40B for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 12:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4VJe7A79303; Fri, 31 May 2002 12:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBBB37B420 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 12:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g4VJVjAF078614 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 21:31:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4VJVjRb078613; Fri, 31 May 2002 21:31:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Message-Id: <200205311931.g4VJVjRb078613@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 21:31:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille Reply-To: Marc Fonvieille To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/38776: In the FAQ 4.X, 3.X, etc... should be used instead of 4.x, 3.x etc... 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 >Number: 38776 >Category: docs >Synopsis: In the FAQ 4.X, 3.X, etc... should be used instead of 4.x, 3.x etc... >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 31 12:40:02 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Marc Fonvieille >Release: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD abigail.blackend.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #5: Sun May 12 00:30:43 CEST 2002 marc@abigail.blackend.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ABIGAIL i386 >Description: In the FAQ 4.X, 3.X, etc... should be used instead of 4.x, 3.x etc... Read the patch below for more details. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Apply the patch to faq/book.sgml --- book.sgml.diff begins here --- --- book.sgml.org Fri May 31 21:23:14 2002 +++ book.sgml Fri May 31 21:27:12 2002 @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ | (May 1999) (Sep 1999) (Dec 1999) (June 2000) (July 2000) | | [4.0-STABLE] - *BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -> 4.1 -> 4.1.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3 -> 4.4 -> ... future 4.x releases ... + *BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -> 4.1 -> 4.1.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3 -> 4.4 -> ... future 4.X releases ... | | (July 2000) (Sep 2000) (Nov 2000) \|/ @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ install FreeBSD, namely floppies/boot.flp. However, since release 3.1 the Project has added out-of-the-box support for a wide variety of hardware, which takes up more - space. For 3.x and later you need two floppy images: + space. For 3.X and later you need two floppy images: floppies/kernel.flp and floppies/mfsroot.flp. These images need to be copied onto floppies by tools like @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ themselves, bad144 has been removed from the FreeBSD source tree. If you wish to install FreeBSD 3.0 or later, we strongly suggest you purchase a newer disk drive. If - you do not wish to do this, you must run FreeBSD 2.x. + you do not wish to do this, you must run FreeBSD 2.X. 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 @@ -2554,7 +2554,7 @@ at boot time. If you are running a previous but relatively recent version - of FreeBSD (2.1.x or better) then you can simply enable it in + of FreeBSD (2.1.X or better) then you can simply enable it in the kernel configuration menu at installation time, otherwise later with at the boot: prompt. It is disabled by default, so you will need to enable @@ -3933,7 +3933,7 @@ - This occurs in FreeBSD 3.x with PCI sound cards. The + This occurs in FreeBSD 3.X with PCI sound cards. The pcm0 device is reserved exclusively for ISA-based cards so, if you have a PCI card, then you will see this error, and your card will appear as pcm1. @@ -3954,7 +3954,7 @@ &prompt.root; cd /dev &prompt.root; ./MAKEDEV snd1 - This situation does not arise in FreeBSD 4.x as a lot + This situation does not arise in FreeBSD 4.X as a lot of work has been done to make it more PnP-centric and the pcm0 device is no longer reserved @@ -3965,29 +3965,29 @@ Why is my PnP card no longer found (or found as - unknown) since upgrading to FreeBSD 4.x? + unknown) since upgrading to FreeBSD 4.X? - FreeBSD 4.x is now much more PnP-centric + FreeBSD 4.X is now much more PnP-centric and this has had the side effect of some PnP devices (e.g. sound cards and internal modems) not working even though they worked - under FreeBSD 3.x. + under FreeBSD 3.X. The reasons for this behavior are explained by the following e-mail, posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list by Peter Wemm, in answer to a question about an internal modem that was - no longer found after an upgrade to FreeBSD 4.x (the comments + no longer found after an upgrade to FreeBSD 4.X (the comments in [] have been added to clarify the context.
The PNP bios preconfigured it [the modem] and left it - laying around in port space, so [in 3.x] the old-style ISA + laying around in port space, so [in 3.X] the old-style ISA probes found it there. Under 4.0, the ISA code is much more PnP-centric. It was - possible [in 3.x] for an ISA probe to find a + possible [in 3.X] for an ISA probe to find a stray device and then for the PNP device id to match and then fail due to resource conflicts. So, it disables the programmable cards first so this double probing @@ -4064,7 +4064,7 @@ Add the hexadecimal Vendor ID for your device in the correct place, save the file, rebuild your kernel, and reboot. Your device should now be found as an sio - device as it was under FreeBSD 3.x + device as it was under FreeBSD 3.X @@ -4719,8 +4719,8 @@ linkend="mailing">mailing list for periodic updates on new entries. - Most ports should be available for the 2.2, 3.x and 4.x - branches, and many of them should work on 2.1.x systems as + Most ports should be available for the 2.2, 3.X and 4.X + branches, and many of them should work on 2.1.X systems as well. Each time a FreeBSD release is made, a snapshot of the ports tree at the time of release in also included in the ports/ directory. @@ -4801,7 +4801,7 @@ You are trying to run a package built on 2.2 and later on - a 2.1.x system. Please take a look at the previous section and + a 2.1.X system. Please take a look at the previous section and get the correct port/package for your system. @@ -5660,7 +5660,7 @@ - This procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x + This procedure is slightly different for 2.2.X and 3.X (with the 3-stage boot) systems. The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your @@ -5679,7 +5679,7 @@ C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD" C:\="DOS" - For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, + For 2.2.X systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the same disk. This example was tested on a system where DOS & NT @@ -5711,7 +5711,7 @@ fdisk command after you reconfigure them to boot from their native partitions. - For FreeBSD 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat + For FreeBSD 3.X systems the procedure is somewhat simpler. If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the NT boot @@ -8338,7 +8338,7 @@ to access the Internet from the Windows95 box through the FreeBSD box. This is really just a special case of the previous question. ... and the answer is yes! In FreeBSD - 3.x, user-mode &man.ppp.8; contains a option. If + 3.X, user-mode &man.ppp.8; contains a option. If you run &man.ppp.8; with the , set gateway_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf, @@ -10922,7 +10922,7 @@ formats for Unix: - Prior to FreeBSD 3.x, FreeBSD used the a.out + Prior to FreeBSD 3.X, FreeBSD used the a.out format. @@ -12326,7 +12326,7 @@ By default, the kernel address space is 256 MB on - FreeBSD 3.x and 1 GB on FreeBSD 4.x. If you run a + FreeBSD 3.X and 1 GB on FreeBSD 4.X. If you run a network-intensive server (e.g. a large FTP or HTTP server), you might find that 256 MB is not enough. --- book.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message