FAQ help: bsdinstall documentation

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

> (raises hand)
> 
> Let me have a look at this.
> -- 
> Devin
> 
> 
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The following questions in the FAQ mention sysinstall in the answer.
>> I am looking for new content to fix, replace, or update these
>> questions.
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#bootmanager-restore

At one time, we could have done s/sysinstall/sade/ but that is no longer the only change that would need to be made considering recent SVN r244859 where sade is now bsdinstall (read: the keystroke instructions are all wrong now).

We have time tho (time before MFC, time before Releng, etc. etc.). 9.1 still has sade based on sysinstall, so the quick-fix of s/sysinstall/sade/ will fix this portion of the documentation (for now, until SVN r244859 makes it into a releng release).



>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#new-huge-disk

s/sysinstall(8), or fdisk(8) and disklabel(8)/bsdinstall(8), or gpart(8) and [optionally] geom(8)/

The note about boot0cfg should stand (we still use it heavily on all systems we deploy).



>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#nt-bootloader

As far as I know bsdinstall doesn't offer this functionality (yet). We could switch the documentation over to talking about boot0cfg. Thoughts?



>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#dangerously-dedicated

We can switch out fdisk for gpart but we'll also have to note that the dangerous dedication is only when applying legacy partition (MBR style) opposed to GPT. But I suspect this isn't about fdisk, but instead sysinstall (so ignore that as fdisk is still very much alive).

Come to think of it, that section doesn't mention sysinstall -- why was it under review again?



>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#forgot-root-pw

bsdinstall does offer the ability to launch a shell, so we could switch this over to talking about running the commands on a shell obtained via bsdinstall.
-- 
Devin


>> 
>> I am willing to
>> - turn the content into docbook [1]
>> - edit content for clarity and English grammar
>> - commit the final result
>> 
>> If anyone is interested in helping please reply to this email message
>> with some new content.
>> 
>> [1] patches to the documentation are appreciated as they make my job
>> easier, but they are not required.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Eitan Adler
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