Date: 4 Oct 1999 14:21:28 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/14116: article-ify multi-os Message-ID: <19991004142128.42090.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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>Number: 14116 >Category: docs >Synopsis: article-ify multi-os >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 4 07:20:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society >Environment: FreeBSD rucus.ru.ac.za 3.0-STABLE FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 9 22:52:23 GMT 1999 grahams@rucus.ru.ac.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/RUCUS-SMP i386 >Description: multi-os article wasn't. Still needs whitespace/indentation stuff. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: cvs diff: Diffing . Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 article.sgml --- article.sgml 1999/09/06 06:52:37 1.6 +++ article.sgml 1999/10/04 14:16:13 @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ <!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v 1.6 1999/09/06 06:52:37 peter Exp $ --> -<!DOCTYPE BOOK PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN"> -<book> +<!DOCTYPE ARTICLE PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Extension//EN"> +<article> -<bookinfo> -<bookbiblio> +<artheader> <title>Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems</title> <authorgroup> @@ -27,10 +26,9 @@ <email>rhh@ct.picker.com</email>, and Jordan K. Hubbard <email>jkh@time.cdrom.com</email></para></abstract> -</bookbiblio> -</bookinfo> +</artheader> -<chapter> +<sect1> <title>Overview</title> <para>Most people can't fit these operating systems together @@ -53,9 +51,9 @@ called Partition Magic, which lets you size and delete partitions without consequence.</para> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter id="ch2"> +<sect1 id="ch2"> <title>Overview of Boot Managers</title> <para>These are just brief descriptions of some of the different boot @@ -124,9 +122,9 @@ FAT32 also modifies the traditional FAT boot sector and allocation table, making it incompatible with some boot managers.</para></note> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter id="ch3"> +<sect1 id="ch3"> <title>A Typical Installation</title> <para>Let's say I have two large EIDE hard drives, and I want to @@ -235,9 +233,9 @@ </procedure> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter id="ch4"> +<sect1 id="ch4"> <title>Special Considerations</title> <para>Most operating systems are very picky about where and how they are @@ -270,9 +268,9 @@ as FAT). Linux can read and write to most file systems. Got that? I hope so.</para> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter id="ch5"> +<sect1 id="ch5"> <title>Examples</title> <para><emphasis>(section needs work, please send your example to @@ -302,9 +300,9 @@ <para>FreeBSD+Linux+Win95: (see <xref linkend="ch3">)</para> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter id="sources"> +<sect1 id="sources"> <title>Other Sources of Help</title> <para>There are many <ulink @@ -334,9 +332,9 @@ procedure, available in the kernel source distribution (it unpacks to <ulink URL="file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD">file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD</ulink>.</para> -</chapter> +</sect1> -<chapter> +<sect1> <title>Technical Details</title> <para><emphasis>(Contributed by Randall Hopper, @@ -350,7 +348,7 @@ unfamiliar and then start reading.</para> -<sect1> +<sect2> <title>Disk Primer</title> <para>Three fundamental terms are used to describe the location of @@ -403,9 +401,9 @@ <para>Ok, enough terminology. We're talking about booting here.</para> -</sect1> +</sect2> -<sect1 id="booting"> +<sect2 id="booting"> <title>The Booting Process</title> <para>On the first sector of your disk (Cyl 0, Head 0, Sector 1) @@ -498,14 +496,14 @@ the first probed disk. The boot manager you will install will be hooked into the MBR on this first probed hard disk that we've just described.</para> -</sect1> +</sect2> -<sect1 id="limits"> +<sect2 id="limits"> <title>Booting Limitations and Warnings</title> <para>Now the interesting stuff that you need to watch out for.</para> -<sect2> +<sect3> <title>The dreaded 1024 cylinder limit and how BIOS LBA helps</title> <para>The first part of the booting process is all done through the @@ -576,9 +574,9 @@ FreeBSD existing on one of my hard disks above the 1024th physical cylinder, and both operating systems boot fine, thanks to BIOS LBA).</para> -</sect2> +</sect3> -<sect2> +<sect3> <title>Boot Managers and Disk Allocation</title> <para>Another gotcha to watch out when installing boot managers is @@ -655,9 +653,9 @@ </itemizedlist> </para> -</sect2> +</sect3> -<sect2> +<sect3> <title>What if your machine won't boot?</title> <para>At some point when installing boot managers, you might leave the @@ -676,7 +674,7 @@ then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard drive. Alternatively, just re-run your boot manager installation program off a bootable floppy.</para> +</sect3> </sect2> </sect1> -</chapter> -</book> +</article> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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