svn commit: r40353 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 12 00:07:37 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Wed Dec 12 00:07:36 2012
New Revision: 40353
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40353
Log:
Even though floppies are still supported for the last
three remaining users of PC-98 it isn't common to get questions
about floppies. Instead answer
with the most likely cause of the problem.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Dec 12 00:07:33 2012 (r40352)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Dec 12 00:07:36 2012 (r40353)
@@ -1373,41 +1373,19 @@
<qandaentry>
<question id="boot-floppy-strangeness">
- <para>Strange things happen when I boot the install floppy!
+ <para>Strange things happen when I boot the install disk!
What is happening?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a
halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the
- install floppy, here are three questions to ask
- yourself:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Did you use a new, freshly-formatted, error-free
- floppy (preferably a brand-new one straight out of the
- box, as opposed to the magazine cover disk that has been
- lying under the bed for the last three years)?</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Did you download the floppy image in binary (or
- image) mode? (do not be embarrassed, even the best of us
- have accidentally downloaded a binary file in ASCII mode
- at least once!)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>If you are using &windows; 95 or
- &windows; 98 did you run <command>fdimage</command>
- or <command>rawrite</command> in pure DOS mode? These
- operating systems can interfere with programs that write
- directly to hardware, which the disk creation program
- does; even running it inside a DOS shell in the GUI can
- cause this problem.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
+ &os; installer, make sure that the SHA256 hash of
+ the image matches the one on the website. If you
+ accidently downloaded the disk image in binary (or
+ image) mode the will be corrupted. (Do not be embarrassed,
+ even the best of us have accidentally downloaded a binary
+ file in ASCII mode at least once!)</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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