docs/149230: [handbook] Homepage is not correct, no boot floppy exist

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 08:40:03 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR docs/149230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org>
To: Johann Kois <jkois at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/149230: [handbook] Homepage is not correct, no boot
 floppy exist
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:22:02 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 08:00:11AM +0000, Johann Kois wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR docs/149230; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Johann Kois <jkois at FreeBSD.org>
 > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, nobody99 at gmx.at
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: docs/149230: [handbook] Homepage is not correct, no boot floppy
 >  exist
 > Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:57:54 +0000
 > 
 >  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
 >  Hash: SHA1
 >  
 >  Not a website problem.  Rather a problem of the handbook (the original,
 >  meaning the English version).
 >  
 >  Root cause:
 >  Automatic build of floppy images has been disabled starting with 8.0.
 >  
 >  See the following thread on the stable mailinglist for more information:
 >  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-May/056705.html
 >  
 >  Best way to proceed for the moment is probably to put a note into the
 >  handbook "that you can still create floppy images under 8.0.  But you
 >  must do it manually".  As the floppy images are still there for 7.X.
 >
 
 If you have time to work on this addition, please do it :)
 If not I'll do it with the rest of some updates I'm (and others like
 Glen Barber) working on for this chapter.
 
 -- 
 Marc



More information about the freebsd-doc mailing list