cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 31 18:21:00 UTC 2007


On 2007-07-31 09:29, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> In fact I'm forgetting the important: the architecture dependent parts.
> 
> - Sometimes ago I reorganized the 2.2 Hardware Requirements section
>   with minimal configuration notes for various architectures but I
>   still miss informations for both arm and powerpc.
>   
> - In "2.3.3 Decide Where to Install FreeBSD" we talk about i386 (and
>   so amd64) and alpha disk layouts, is something needed for other
>   archs?

It may be sensible to phase out the alpha-specific parts now, or at
least make it easy to skip them (since we don't really support alpha in
the latest releases).

> - I think we should  s/2.3.3.1 Disk Layouts for the i386/2.3.3.1
>   Disk Layouts for i386 and amd64 architectures/ and s/2.4.1.1 Booting
>   for the i386/2.4.1.1 Booting for i386 and amd64 architectures/

That sounds good, indeed.  Do we need to add special sections for
sparc64 and/or powerpc or even ARM now?

- Giorgos




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