Handbook 5.3 modifications: prepare floppies & advanced installation

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 8 19:51:33 UTC 2004


On Friday 08 October 2004 02:54 am, spam maps wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some more differences between for 4.X and from
> 5.3, needs to be clarified in the handbook.
> Below are two such cases. The "-" lines need to
> be removed, the "+" newly added instead.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> 2.2.7 Prepare the Boot Media
>
> -In most cases you will just need two files,
> -kern.flp and mfsroot.flp.
>
> +In case of 4.X, you will just need two files,
> +kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; since 5.3, you will
> +need three files, boot.flp, kern1.flp and
> +kern2.flp.

Note that alpha on 5.3 has 4 floppies.  It would be best to describe things 
more like, "you will need the boot.flp, kern*.flp, and any mfsroot*.flp 
floppies."

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