Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:13:28 -0500 From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?L=E1szl=F3?= L. Orosz" <lorosz@suffolk.lib.ny.us> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Text-covering and overlapping figure images Message-ID: <3B889388.5FF3B66B@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
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Gentlemen: There are some rendering problems with Figures 2.3 through 2.6: these figures are located over text fields. Thus, the text underneath them cannot be read that jeopardizes the understandability of the whole chapter. Furthermore, Figures 2.4 through 2.6 overlap to a degree that only parts of two figures can be seen. In addition, I have some general observation as follows: The list of supported components is rather outdated. Anything that is over five-year old should be put in an antiquated or legacy component category. But, well established and upcoming new components should be listed. Instead SCSI boards from the '80s and early '90s I like to see CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-RW units, USB and fire-wire components. Though, it may not be incorrect, but it is definitely unrealistic to try to install multiple operating systems on a 4GB hard drive in 2001. Obviously, using at least a 40GB hard drive in the example would be more realistic. There is a similar problem with the space requirement. Nowadays, when a browser can take up close to 100MB, it is rather hopeless to try jam everything in 2GB! I also find somewhat naive to assume that the DOS and Windoze duet would live in a studio apartment called C:. I, for example, use C: through I: for them, and having root, home, usr and swap partitions for Linux, and have a tight 12GB left for FreeBSD. I am really not sure that that amount will be enough in early 2002. What perhaps is more important that this set up would force the description to deal with logical partitions, too. What about bringing in the picture a second hard drive? Using the word slice is not a great help. It rather fogs the mental picture of disk utilization. Is it fundamentally different from a partition? Does FreeBSD requests using a contiguous disk region? Has that region to be a primary partition, or start on a primary partition, or can be a set of logical partitions? Using only primary partitions in the examples makes the description formally simpler, but leaves the subject incomplete. Respectfully László L. Orosz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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