From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 23 7:51:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7685537B43E for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from hornet.unixfreak.org (hornet [63.198.170.140]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394FA3E28; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:51:40 -0700 (PDT) To: "Kristof Pap" Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typo in the installation guide In-Reply-To: ; from kristof_pap@hotmail.com on "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:18:59 +0000" Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:51:40 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010723145140.394FA3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> 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 Fixed, thanks! "Kristof Pap" writes: > Hello > > I was just browsing the online version of the installation guide: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-guide. > html > and found that where it is talking about the installation floppies > (2.2.1.1 Creating the Installation Floppies), in the last paragraph of > the 3rd point (3. Write the image files to the floppy disks), the first > two sentences are these: > > On FreeBSD /dev/fd0 refers to the first floppy disk (the A: > drive). /dev/rfd1 would be the B: drive, and so on. > > I suppose the B: drive would be /dev/fd1, and this typo (saying it to > be /dev/rfd1) can be quite confusing if somebody is about to install > FreeBSD for the first time. > > I would like to send a patch, but I can't, as I'm unfortunately on > windows right now, but I think it won't be hard to find the error on > the base of this description. And maybe you already know about this > error, but for me it is so rare to find an error (even so small) in > the FreeBSD docs., that I had to send this mail, so long as it is... > > So, keep up the good work, and have fun > > Kristof > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message