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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:51:40 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        "Kristof Pap" <kristof_pap@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Typo in the installation guide 
Message-ID:  <20010723145140.394FA3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <F2116EBSotwBP8xidGV00003fa9@hotmail.com>; from kristof_pap@hotmail.com on "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:18:59 %2B0000"

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Fixed, thanks!

"Kristof Pap" <kristof_pap@hotmail.com> 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
> 
> 
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