Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:15:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: PERFORCE change 19709 for review Message-ID: <200210201915.g9KJFA3T071914@repoman.freebsd.org>
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http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=19709 Change 19709 by bmah@bmah_intruder on 2002/10/20 12:14:13 Add a few more caveats about binary upgrades that I thought of while trying to test release builds. Affected files ... .. //depot/releng/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter-50/article.sgml#3 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/releng/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter-50/article.sgml#3 (text+ko) ==== @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team</corpauthor> </authorgroup> - <pubdate>$P4: //depot/releng/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter-50/article.sgml#2 $</pubdate> + <pubdate>$P4: //depot/releng/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter-50/article.sgml#3 $</pubdate> <copyright> <year>2002</year> @@ -300,6 +300,28 @@ cross-major-version upgrades. Using this feature is not recommended.</para> + <para>On the i386 and pc98 platforms, a UserConfig utility + exists on 4-STABLE to allow boot-time configuration of ISA + devices when booting from installation media. Under FreeBSD + 5.0, this functionality has been replaced in part by the + &man.device.hints.5; mechanism (it allows specifying the same + parameters, but is not interactive).</para> + + <para>Floppy-based binary installations may require downloading + a third, new floppy image holding additional device drivers + in kernel modules. This <filename>drivers.flp</filename> + floppy image will generally be found in the same location as + the usual <filename>kern.flp</filename> and + <filename>mfsroot.flp</filename> floppy images.</para> + + <para>CDROM-based installations on the i386 architecture now use + a <quote>no-emulation</quote> boot loader. This allows, among + other things, the use of a <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel, + rather than the stripped-down kernel on the floppy images. In + theory, any system capable of booting the Microsoft Windows NT + 4 installation CDROMs should be able to cope with the FreeBSD + 5.0 CDROMs.</para> + </section> <section> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message
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