Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:59:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990109095916.K96705@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:11:54AM %2B0000 References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com>
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On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 8:11:54 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 14:13:48 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> Dave Walton wrote: >>>> >>>> On 5 Jan 99, at 21:52, Graeme Tait wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>> The general consensus is that the man pages are a waste of space, and >>>>>> they make the book too heavy. The next edition won't have them. >>> >>> What plans do you have for the next edition, Greg?. Timescales, >>> changes etc? >> >> I'm hoping to have it out by April. I'm open to suggestions about >> what should be included. >> > > FWIW, I would suggest that large HD's (multi-GB), LBA, the infamous > 1024 cyl limit etc. are addressed. e.g. that you can install FreeBSD > above 1024 cyls on an (E)IDE disk using LBA and on SCSI if you boot > from the first partition with a boot mangler. The partition schemes in > the book only cover small disks IIRC. There's no distinction between small disks and large disks. The only problems are with the system BIOS. But booting in 3.0 is very different (and it still hasn't finished changing :-). This will definitely be a topic in the new edition. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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