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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:23:40 GMT
From:      minimarmot@gmail.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/114180: readability note in handbook/install chapter
Message-ID:  <200707010023.l610NeiM002166@prolepsis.scs.uiuc.edu>
Resent-Message-ID: <200707010030.l610U9x8095026@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         114180
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       readability note in handbook/install chapter
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 01 00:30:04 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Kaduk
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD prolepsis.scs.uiuc.edu 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Apr 1 16:59:00 UTC 2007 kaduk@prolepsis.scs.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


	
>Description:
	The handbook refers to MS-DOS based file systems.  Some of us
know these filesystems as FAT16 and FAT32 -- we should be able to afford
a few more words.
>How-To-Repeat:
	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble.html
>Fix:

--- chapter.sgml.orig   Sat Jun 30 17:15:48 2007
+++ chapter.sgml        Sat Jun 30 17:23:11 2007
@@ -3972,7 +3995,8 @@
        located in the <guimenuitem>Start</guimenuitem>&gt; <guimenuitem>Programs<
/guimenuitem> &gt;
        <guimenuitem>System Tools</guimenuitem> menu.</para>

-      <para>&os; can support &ms-dos; based file systems.  This requires you use
+      <para>&os; can support &ms-dos;-based file systems (FAT16 and FAT32).
+       This requires you use
        the &man.mount.msdosfs.8; command
        with the required parameters.  The utility most common usage is:</para>



>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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