From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jul 13 8:46:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A0B37B400; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EE343E4A; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020713154621.POAB24728.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:46:21 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6DFkKeU099621; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6DFkKhD099620; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207131546.g6DFkKhD099620@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: Ross Lippert , nik@FreeBSD.ORG, blackend@FreeBSD.ORG, vdvanham@xs4all.nl, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/40265: bootfloppies 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> Comments: In-reply-to Szilveszter Adam message dated "Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:32:01 +0200." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1050379180P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:46:20 -0700 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 --==_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