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	Nik Clayton on Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:02:14 +0100)
Subject: Re: docs/40265: bootfloppies
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When I was installing from floppies years ago, I also got hung up
on kern.flp versus boot.flp.  Was boot.flp ever anything?

-r

[ On a plane at the moment, which is why I'm talking about doing this,
>  instead of just doing it.  If no one else gets to it, this message
>  should remind me. ]
>
>On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:26:52AM -0700, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
>> Synopsis: bootfloppies
>> 
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>> State-Changed-By: blackend
>> State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 6 05:24:54 PDT 2002
>> State-Changed-Why: 
>> After a talk with the originator, the problem seems to be an error in
>> the book FreeBSD Unleashed not in our docs.
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40265
>
>However, a grep through the Handbook shows that there are a number of
>places where we talk about boot.flp and mean kern.flp, and they should
>be fixed.
>
>In addition, we need to make sure this feedback reaches the authors, so
>it can be fixed in the next edition/noted on the website errata.
>
>N
>

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