Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:20 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, blackend@FreeBSD.ORG, vdvanham@xs4all.nl, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/40265: bootfloppies Message-ID: <200207131546.g6DFkKhD099620@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020713143201.GC805@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> References: <20020707150214.GE5610@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200207131350.GAA26131@eskimo.com> <20020713143201.GC805@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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--==_Exmh_-1050379180P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > This however does not alter the fact that boot.flp was wrongly named all > along, and there was only a README file to warn the user about this in > the appropriate ftp directory. Older versions of FreeBSD were actually small enough so that a kernel and the installer bits could actually fit on a single floppy image (a 1200K image too!). That floppy image was called (surprise!) boot.flp. > Also, the README.TXT in the floppies directory of the FTP server seems > to contain an earlier version of the installation chapter of the > Handbook, but I may be wrong here. You're wrong here. :-) It contains the architecture-specific INSTALL.TXT file. > If so, it really ought to be changed > to something else, because it not only duplicates existing content but > duplicates it possibly incorrectly.:-P Instead, a quick > table-of-contents would be more appropriate there, to tell you quickly > what each of the images are good for. I seem to recall I had a reason for putting INSTALL.TXT there (and it wasn't just to fix the problem that for one release, I put the top-level README.TXT there). I can't remember what it was...something like making sure that users had all the info they'd need to get started if they didn't have access to an on-line Handbook. A small table-of-contents file is easy to add, but ENOTIME. Briefly, put some content into a file in src/release/texts (modify the README file there appropriately). Modify src/release/Makefile to put it (rather than INSTALL.TXT) into place when it builds the FTP and CDROM areas. Test with a release build on at least one architecture. Modify (if necessary) for 4-STABLE and MFC. > Unfortunately, these files are not > under the control of the The FreeBSD Documentation Project as of now... What on Earth gave you that idea? See src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/install/* Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1050379180P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9MEtM2MoxcVugUsMRApHHAKDqUpQ9Z5BkReciYpkdKLOdTKYEBACgsX60 3IjJhFjZjGCemKD9duFWs/g= =HGYN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1050379180P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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