svn commit: r40736 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler
> Date: Thu Jan 24 17:34:55 2013
> New Revision: 40736
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40736
>
> Log:
>  Remove install-bad-blocks:
>
>  95% bogus, user-controlled bad block mapping stopped being a
>  thing about 20 years ago

Was the removal of boot-floppy-strangeness intentional as well?
It looks quite poorly written regardless...

-Ben

>
>  Noted by:	scottl
>  Approved by:	bcr (mentor, implicit)
>
> 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	Thu Jan 24 15:03:30 2013	(r40735)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Thu Jan 24 17:34:55 2013	(r40736)
> @@ -1382,41 +1382,6 @@
>       </qandaentry>
>
>       <qandaentry>
> -	<question id="install-bad-blocks">
> -	  <para>Can I install on a disk with bad blocks?</para>
> -	</question>
> -
> -	<answer>
> -	  <para>You can, but it is a bad idea.</para>
> -
> -	  <para>If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE
> -	    drive, chances are the drive is going to die very soon (the
> -	    drive's internal remapping functions are no longer
> -	    sufficient to fix the bad blocks, which means the disk is
> -	    heavily corrupted); we suggest you buy a new hard
> -	    drive.</para>
> -	</answer>
> -      </qandaentry>
> -
> -      <qandaentry>
> -	<question id="boot-floppy-strangeness">
> -	  <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
> -	    &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>
> -
> -      <qandaentry>
> 	<question id="no-install-cdrom">
> 	  <para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program
> 	    says no CD-ROM is found.  Where did it go?</para>
>