Small suggestion/question about The Handbook (Sec 2.3.1)

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Apr 3 06:07:15 UTC 2016


On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>
> In message <alpine.BSF.2.20.1603312259520.97764 at wonkity.com>,
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> The short version:
>>
>>   Normal images are used to install FreeBSD on a BIOS computer or a
>>   computer with UEFI "CSM" enabled.
>>
>>   Installing in UEFI mode requires a uefi image.
>>
>> That's not hard to include, but will it help the user to decide which
>> image to download?
>
> Answer:  A little.
>
> As I've already admitted, most of this UEFI stuff is rather entirely
> opaque to me... undoubtedly because I haven't invested the time
> necessary to scour online documents enough to understand it.  Not
> even marginally.  (That's my fault, so mea cupla.)  However given that
> that FreeBSD Release Engineering folks are routinely going to all
> the trouble to create these full alternate sets of install images,
> it seems to me that it would be reasonable to invest at least a
> small additional amount of effort to describe for us end lusers
> the circumstances under which one of these alternate images would
> be either necessary or useful.  Right now, there's nothing.  No
> hints whatsoever.

Don't say I never got you anything. :)  Updated in r48525:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html#bsdinstall-installation-media

It is an even more brief mention than discussed above, but can be 
expanded.


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