svn commit: r39886 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 31 21:24:50 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Wed Oct 31 21:24:50 2012
New Revision: 39886
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39886
Log:
Improve the answer relating to corrupted downloads.
Reviewed by: gjb
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 Oct 31 21:24:47 2012 (r39885)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Oct 31 21:24:50 2012 (r39886)
@@ -1252,21 +1252,17 @@
<qandaentry>
<question id="floppy-image-too-large">
- <para>What do I do if the floppy images does not fit on a
- single floppy?</para>
+ <para>What do I do if the images do not fit on a
+ single disk?</para>
</question>
<answer>
- <para>A 3.5 inch (1.44 MB) floppy can accommodate
- 1,474,560 bytes of data. The boot image is exactly
- 1,474,560 bytes in size.</para>
-
- <para>Common mistakes when preparing the boot floppy
+ <para>Common mistakes when preparing the boot media
are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Not downloading the floppy image in
+ <para>Not downloading the image in
<emphasis>binary</emphasis> mode when using
<acronym>FTP</acronym>.</para>
@@ -1274,7 +1270,8 @@
<emphasis>ascii</emphasis> and attempt to change any
end-of-line characters received to match the conventions
used by the client's system. This will almost
- invariably corrupt the boot image. Check the size of
+ invariably corrupt the boot image. Check the SHA-256
+ of
the downloaded boot image: if it is not
<emphasis>exactly</emphasis> that on the server, then
the download process is suspect.</para>
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