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The [patch] convention for the summary field is not needed anymore.
Update the quick start FreeBSD section in the overview chapter of
the fdp-primer to reflect that.
PR: 295715
Following the move of this chapter to a separate article.
I ran `tools/update_translate_template.sh` and discarded the irrelevant
changes.
Discussed with: ziaee, carlavilla
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56430
- For pages on the author's website (no longer active), use archive.org links
- For the textbook referenced, just give the title
- Use the 'link' macro everywhere
Reviewed by: 0mp, emaste (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45963
Minor tweaks for consistency/readability. Actual content is not touched.
- Replace references to "chapter" with "article".
- Add a NOTE of the historical nature of the document.
- Clarify assemblers available on FreeBSD.
- List the trademarks used in the article, and reduce the (R) symbol
usage. Per the Doc Primer, it only needs to be emitted with the first
usage of the trademark.
- Add more tags for SEO
Reviewed by: 0mp, emaste (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45962
The content of this chapter is niche, and has not been significantly
altered since its initial authorship in 2001. Still, it contains highly
detailed information that is still accurate on a largely
undocumented/esoteric topic. Therefore, it is worth preserving.
Move this to a standalone article. This allows us to continue publishing
it while removing any expectation that the text should evolve or stay
up-to-date.
Discussed with: ziaee, carlavilla
Reviewed by: emaste (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45961
In many parts of this chapter the use of "qualified name" and
"unqualified name" was used to refer to a full path to a file (or just
the filename). This terminology is used more in networking terms (i.e.
fully qualified hostname) and is strange to use when referring to files
and directories in a filesystem. It leads to confusion for the reader,
which is why I replaced it throughout the chapter with the more commonly
used term "full path" where appropriate.
While here, remove some whitespaces at the end of sentences.
PR: 292300
FreeBSD hasn't fit on a CD-ROM in a long time,
and nobody we know of is selling FreeBSD DVDs.
This whole page needs TLC, one thing at a time.
Reviewed by: carlavilla
Discussed with: cperciva, mchoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56981
The last few years, there is only one distributor of FreeBSD discs,
and they only update their website if I send them an email, so I think
they are not actually selling any and nobody wants this.
Discussed with: cperciva
When going into single user mode to change the root password, some users
may want to change to their preferred keyboard layout before entering a
new password. Add a sentence about how to do that.
When remounting all the remaining filesystems, there are different mount
instructions for UFS and ZFS. Mention how to do that for each of them.
PR: 294971
The patch that fixes reboot issues is only in the upcoming FreeBSD-16
and will not be merged back to 15, 14, or 13 versions. Hence, use the
'shutdown -r now' instead of 'reboot' consistently throughout the
handbook.
PR: 293519
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56631
I only authored the bumps to 1600018 and 1500509, not the previous ones.
Hopefully the description of these previous bumps is accurate.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The previous instructions used "gpart bootcode" which do not work
anymore and result in broken boot on EFI systems. Change the
instructions to mount the EFI partition first and then copy the boot
loader file into the target directory on it. Add a note that the target
file is architecture specific, pointing users to uefi(8) where the file
names are listed per architecture.
PR: 293912
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56643
Alexey Shuvaev