Bug 44594

Summary:	Handbook doesn't mention drivers.flp for 5.0 installs
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Bruce A. Mah <bmah>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Daniel Gerzo <danger>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2002-10-29 17:10:01 UTC

FreeBSD 5.0 supports a drivers.flp floppy that contains device drivers
that wouldn't fit on either kern.flp or mfsroot.flp.  Unlike the 
drivers on mfsroot.flp, those on drivers.flp need to be manually loaded
from within sysinstall(8), using the Configure->Load KLD menu item.
This is mostly applicable to floppy installs.  CDROM installs use a
standard GENERIC kernel.

The installation chapter of the Handbook doesn't document this.

Fix: 

Turn the above notes into real English, mark them up (screenshots as 
necessary), and drop them into the right place in the installation chapter 
of the Handbook.
How-To-Repeat: 
A good example of this is a floppy boot to sysinstall, followed by an
attempted network installation over an em(4) interface.

Comment 1 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer

2006-08-30 14:10:33 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Close this PR as we don't ship drivers.flp any more for the latest 
releases from 4.x, 5.x or 6.x. drivers.flp has been  
removed when the FreeBSD bootstrapper was made to support booting from  
multiple floppies 

Pointed out by: Niclas Zeising <lothrandil@n00b.apagnu.se>

Comment 2 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer

2006-08-30 14:16:33 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->danger

Make me responsible.