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Bug 210360
Lack of correlation between handbook and release on system requirements. [Section 2.2]
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2.2 rewrite final approved patch
bsdinstall.diff.txt (text/plain), 5.12 KB, created by
Timothy Moore II
on 2016-08-12 17:43:40 UTC
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2.2 rewrite final approved patch
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>Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml >=================================================================== >--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml (revision 49218) >+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml (working copy) >@@ -140,37 +140,33 @@ > <sect1 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware"> > <title>Minimum Hardware Requirements</title> > >- <para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by the >- hardware architecture. Hardware architectures >+ <para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by >+ architecture. Hardware architectures > and devices supported by a &os; release are listed on the > Release Information page of the &os; web site (<link >- xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html</link>).</para> >+ xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html</link>). >+ The &os; download page also has recommendations for choosing the >+ correct image for different architectures (<link >+ xlink:href="&url.base;/where.html">https://www.FreeBSD.org/where.html</link>).</para> > >- <para>A &os; installation will require a minimum 64 MB of >- <acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space >- for the most minimal installation. However, that is a >- <emphasis>minimal</emphasis> install, leaving almost no >- free space. RAM requirements depend on usage. Specialized >- FreeBSD systems can run in as little as 128MB RAM while desktop >- systems should have at least 4 GB >- of <acronym>RAM</acronym>.</para> >+ <para>A &os; installation requires a minimum of 64 MB of >+ <acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space. >+ However, such small amounts of memory and disk space are really >+ only suitable for custom applications like embedded appliances. >+ General-purpose desktop >+ systems need more resources. 2-4 GB RAM and >+ at least 8 GB hard drive space is a good starting point.</para> > >- <para>The processor requirements for each architecture can be >- summarized as follows:</para> >+ <para>These are the processor requirements for each architecture:</para> > > <variablelist> > <varlistentry> > <term>&arch.amd64;</term> > <listitem> >- <para>This is the most common type of processor desktop and >- laptop computers will have. Other vendors may call this >- architecture <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para> >+ <para>This is the most common desktop and laptop processor type, >+ used in most modern systems. &intel; calls it <acronym>Intel64</acronym>. >+ Other manufacturers sometimes call it <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para> > >- <para>There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64; >- processors: &intel; (which produces >- <acronym>Intel64</acronym> class processors) and AMD >- (which produces <acronym>AMD64</acronym>).</para> >- > <para>Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors > include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;, > multi-core &intel; &xeon;, and >@@ -181,7 +177,7 @@ > <varlistentry> > <term>&arch.i386;</term> > <listitem> >- <para>This architecture is the 32-bit x86 >+ <para>Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86 > architecture.</para> > > <para>Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating >@@ -190,12 +186,12 @@ > > <para>&os; will take advantage of Physical Address > Extensions (<acronym>PAE</acronym>) support on >- <acronym>CPU</acronym>s that support this feature. A >+ <acronym>CPU</acronym>s with this feature. A > kernel with the <acronym>PAE</acronym> feature enabled > will detect memory above 4 GB and allow it to be used >- by the system. This feature places constraints on the >- device drivers and other features of &os; which may be >- used; refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para> >+ by the system. However, using <acronym>PAE</acronym> places constraints on >+ device drivers and other features of >+ &os;. Refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para> > </listitem> > </varlistentry> > >@@ -1673,8 +1669,8 @@ > <para>If one or more disks are missing from the list, or if > disks were attached after the installer was started, select > <guibutton>- Rescan Devices</guibutton> to repopulate the list >- of available disks. To ensure that the correct disks are >- selected, so as not to accidently destroy the wrong disks, the >+ of available disks. >+ To avoid accidentally erasing the wrong disk, the > <guibutton>- Disk Info</guibutton> menu can be used to inspect > each disk, including its partition table and various other > information such as the device model number and serial number, >@@ -1737,7 +1733,7 @@ > <title>Shell Mode Partitioning</title> > > <para>When creating advanced installations, the >- <application>bsdinstall</application> paritioning menus may >+ <application>bsdinstall</application> partitioning menus may > not provide the level of flexibility required. Advanced users > can select the <guibutton>Shell</guibutton> option from the > partitioning menu in order to manually partition the drives,
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