Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:56:34 -0800 (PST) From: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/2244: patch to remove references to root.flp from handbook Message-ID: <199612182156.NAA00959@gdi.uoregon.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199612182200.OAA00443@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2244
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: patch to remove references to root.flp from handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 18 14:00:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Doug White
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386
>Environment:
Any FreeBSD system
>Description:
Apologies for the duplicate bug submission, the last one had the wrong
email address. Please close it.
The Handbook, specifically install.sgml, contains references to
the now-defunct root.flp boot floppy image. Today I read another message
from some poor soul who is looking for 'root.flp'. This is the last straw!
The included patch removes these references from the Handbook.
Please check this patch before committing. My sgmlfmt throws horrible fits
on the -current handbook so I can't check this.
send-pr will probably munge the patch because of the <tags>, so this patch
will also be available via the Web at
http://resnet.uoregon.edu/install.patch
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the handbook, section 2.2 :)
>Fix:
--- install.sgml Thu Dec 12 19:11:04 1996
+++ install.sgml.old Wed Dec 18 13:31:50 1996
@@ -421,17 +421,6 @@
things the hard way, you must first prepare some
floppies for the install.
-
- The first floppy that you will need in addition to the boot.flp
- image is ``floppies/root.flp'', which is somewhat special in that
- it is not a DOS filesystem floppy at all, but rather a floppy "image"
- (it's actually a gzip'd cpio file). You can create this floppy in
- the same way that you created the boot floppy <ref id="install"
- name="the beginning of this guide">. Once this floppy is
- made, you can go on to make the distribution set floppies
- using ordinary DOS or UFS (if you are preparing the floppies on
- another FreeBSD machine) formatted diskettes.
-
You will need, at minimum, as many 1.44MB or 1.2MB floppies as
it takes to hold all files in the bin (binary distribution)
directory. If you are preparing these floppies under DOS, then
@@ -493,10 +482,7 @@
C> XCOPY /S E:\FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES\
</verb></tscreen>
assuming that <tt>C:</tt> is where you have free space
- and <tt>E:</tt> is where your CDROM is mounted. Note
- that you need the <tt>FLOPPIES</tt> directory because
- the <tt>root.flp</tt> image is needed during an MS-DOS
- installation.
+ and <tt>E:</tt> is where your CDROM is mounted.
For as many `DISTS' you wish to install from MS-DOS
(and you have free space for), install each one under
@@ -522,9 +508,6 @@
cd /freebsd/distdir<newline>
tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) dist1 .. dist2
</tscreen>
- Make sure that the `floppies/' directory is one of the
- ``dists'' given above, since the installation will look
- for `floppies/root.flp' on the tape.
When you go to do the installation, you should also
make sure that you leave enough room in some temporary
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