Bug 70485
| Summary: | Update to release installation notes | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Bruce A. Mah <bmah> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed patch as submitted...thanks! Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->bmah Committed patch as submitted...thanks! |
The release installation notes are very out of date. Updating these is listed as a "must resolve" on the todo list for 5.3-RELEASE. The included patch: - Update document to 5-CURRENT reality, including accounting for changes in floppy layout and CD format. Some of it was out of date when 2.2.8 was released... - Bump up the minimum spec required from info found on mailing lists. - Make examples work on 5-CURRENT, add extra ones where this may sacrifice cross-OS compatibility. Clarify other examples. - Add more up-to-date questions to the Q&A section, though I'm not convinced the ones already here really belong here. Update existing ones anyway. - Reword some sentances ("i recommend" -> "you should" etc) - Update size of ports collection to better match reality An update to the other half of the installation notes, the troubleshooting section, can be found in docs/66980. bin/70279 and bin/70245 should also be considered for committing so that the install notes are fully correct. Note someone with more doc experience probably should check this diff before it is committed, although it has survived a "make release" and the resulting docs do seem correct. Fix: (Patch also available at http://www.devrandom.co.uk/installnotes.diff) How-To-Repeat: Try installing FreeBSD by following the current install notes.