svn commit: r44866 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall
Dru Lavigne
dru at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 18 17:13:27 UTC 2014
Author: dru
Date: Sun May 18 17:13:26 2014
New Revision: 44866
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44866
Log:
Modernize the min hardware requirements to match recent Hardware Notes.
Format architectures as a variablelist.
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Sun May 18 14:59:06 2014 (r44865)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Sun May 18 17:13:26 2014 (r44866)
@@ -24,18 +24,17 @@
by </contrib>
</author>
</authorgroup>
-
+<!---
<authorgroup>
<author>
<personname>
<firstname>Randy</firstname>
<surname>Pratt</surname>
</personname>
-
<contrib>The sysinstall walkthrough, screenshots, and general
- copy by </contrib>
+ copy by </contrib>
</author>
- </authorgroup>
+ </authorgroup>-->
<authorgroup>
<author>
@@ -72,14 +71,13 @@
<indexterm><primary>installation</primary></indexterm>
- <para>&os; comes with a text-based, easy to use installation
- program. &os; 9.0-RELEASE and later use an installation
- program called <application>bsdinstall</application>, while
- releases prior to &os; 9.0-RELEASE using
- <application>sysinstall</application> for installation. This
- chapter describes the use of
+ <para>Beginning with &os; 9.0-RELEASE, &os; provides an easy
+ to use, text-based installation
+ program named <application>bsdinstall</application>. This
+ chapter describes how to install &os; using
<application>bsdinstall</application>. The use of
- <application>sysinstall</application> is covered in <xref
+ <application>sysinstall</application>, which is the installation
+ program used by &os; 8.x, is covered in <xref
linkend="install"/>.</para>
<para>After reading this chapter, you will know:</para>
@@ -89,10 +87,10 @@
<para>How to create the &os; installation media.</para>
</listitem>
+<!-- WB: verify this, including GPT partition notation (ada0p2)
<listitem>
- <!-- WB: verify this, including GPT partition notation (ada0p2) -->
<para>How &os; subdivides and refers to hard disks.</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem> -->
<listitem>
<para>How to start
@@ -127,98 +125,130 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware">
- <title>Hardware Requirements</title>
-
- <sect2 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware-minimal">
- <title>Minimal Configuration</title>
-
- <para>The minimal configuration to install &os; varies with the
- &os; version and the hardware architecture.</para>
-
- <para>A summary of this information is given in the following
- sections. Depending upon the method chosen to install &os;,
- a supported <acronym>CD</acronym> drive and, in some cases, a
- network adapter may be needed. This will be covered by
- <xref linkend="bsdinstall-installation-media"/>.</para>
-
- <sect3>
- <title>&os;/&arch.i386;</title>
-
- <para>&os;/&arch.i386; requires a 486 or better processor and
- at least 64 MB of <acronym>RAM</acronym>. At least
- 1.1 GB of free hard drive space is needed for the most
- minimal installation.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>On old computers, increasing <acronym>RAM</acronym>
- and hard drive space is usually more effective at
- improving performance than installing a faster
- processor.</para>
- </note>
- </sect3>
+ <title>Minimum Hardware Requirements</title>
- <sect3>
- <title>&os;/&arch.amd64;</title>
+ <para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by the
+ &os; version and the hardware architecture. Hardware
+ architectures and devices supported by a &os;
+ release are listed in the Hardware Notes file. Usually named
+ <filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>, the file is located in the
+ root directory of the release media. Copies of the supported
+ hardware list are also available on the Release Information
+ page of the &os; web site (<link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html</link>).</para>
+ <para>A &os; installation will require at least 64 MB of
+ <acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.1 GB of free hard drive
+ space for the most minimal installation. It is recommended to
+ increase <acronym>RAM</acronym> and hard drive space to meet
+ the needs of the applications that will be used and the amount
+ of data that will be stored. The processor requirements for
+ each architecture can be summarized as follows:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>&arch.amd64;</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>There are two classes of processors capable of running
- &os;/&arch.amd64;. The first are AMD64 processors,
- including the &amd.athlon;64, &amd.athlon;64-FX,
- &amd.opteron; or better processors.</para>
+ &arch.amd64;. The first are <acronym>AMD64</acronym> processors,
+ including the &amd.athlon;64 and
+ &amd.opteron; processors.</para>
- <para>The second class of processors that can use
- &os;/&arch.amd64; includes those using the
+ <para>The second class of processors includes those using the
&intel; EM64T architecture. Examples of these
- processors include the &intel; &core; 2 Duo, Quad,
- Extreme processor families, the &intel; &xeon; 3000,
- 5000, and 7000 sequences of processors, the
- &intel; &xeon; E3, E5 and E7 processors, and the
- &intel; &core; i3, i5 and i7 processors.</para>
-
- <para>If the system is based on an nVidia nForce3 Pro-150, the
- <acronym>IO</acronym> <acronym>APIC</acronym>
- <emphasis>must</emphasis> be disabled in the
- <acronym>BIOS</acronym> setup. If this
- <acronym>BIOS</acronym> option does not exist, disable
- <acronym>ACPI</acronym> instead.</para>
- </sect3>
+ processors include all multi-core &intel; &xeon;
+ processors except Sossaman, the single-core
+ &intel; &xeon; processors Nocona, Irwindale, Potomac,
+ and Cranford, the &intel; &core; 2 (not Core Duo)
+ and later processors, all &intel; &pentium; D processors, the
+ &intel; &pentium; 4s and Celeron Ds using the Cedar
+ Mill core, and some &intel; &pentium; 4s and Celeron Ds
+ using the Prescott core.</para>
- <sect3>
- <title>&os;/&arch.powerpc; &apple; &macintosh;</title>
+ <para>Both Uniprocessor (<acronym>UP</acronym>) and Symmetric
+ Multi-processor (<acronym>SMP</acronym>) configurations are
+ supported.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>&arch.i386;</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating
+ point unit are supported. All &intel; processors
+ 486 or higher are supported.</para>
+
+ <para>&os; will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions
+ (<acronym>PAE</acronym>) support on <acronym>CPU</acronym>s
+ that support this feature. A kernel with the
+ <acronym>PAE</acronym> feature enabled will detect memory
+ above 4 GB and allow it to be used by the system.
+ This feature places constraints on the device drivers and
+ other features of &os; which may be used; refer to
+ &man.pae.4; for details.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>ia64</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Currently supported processors are the &itanium; and the
+ &itanium; 2. Supported chipsets include the HP zx1, &intel;
+ 460GX, and &intel; E8870. Both Uniprocessor
+ (<acronym>UP</acronym>) and Symmetric Multi-processor
+ (<acronym>SMP</acronym>) configurations are supported.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>pc98</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all i386-compatible
+ processors, including 80486, &pentium;, &pentium; Pro, and
+ &pentium; II, are all supported. All i386-compatible processors
+ by AMD, Cyrix, IBM, and IDT are also supported. EPSON
+ PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC PC-9801
+ series, are supported. The NEC FC-9801/9821 and NEC SV-98
+ series should be supported.</para>
+
+ <para>High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC
+ PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, and NEC PC-H98 series are supported in
+ normal (PC-9801 compatible) mode only. The
+ <acronym>SMP</acronym>-related features of &os; are not
+ supported. The New Extend Standard Architecture
+ (<acronym>NESA</acronym>) bus used in the PC-H98, SV-H98,
+ and FC-H98 series, is not supported. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <para>All New World &apple; &macintosh; systems with built-in
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>&arch.powerpc;</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>All New World <acronym>ROM</acronym> &apple; &macintosh; systems with built-in
<acronym>USB</acronym> are supported.
<acronym>SMP</acronym> is supported on machines with
multiple <acronym>CPU</acronym>s.</para>
<para>A 32-bit kernel can only use the first 2 GB of
- <acronym>RAM</acronym>. &firewire; is not supported on the
- Blue & White PowerMac G3.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3>
- <title>&os;/&arch.sparc64;</title>
+ <acronym>RAM</acronym>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>&arch.sparc64;</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>Systems supported by &os;/&arch.sparc64; are listed at
the FreeBSD/sparc64 Project (<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/platforms/sparc.html">http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html</link>).</para>
- <para>A dedicated disk is required for &os;/&arch.sparc64;.
- It is not possible to share a disk with another operating
+ <para><acronym>SMP</acronym> is supported on all systems with
+ more than 1 processor. A dedicated disk is required as
+ it is not possible to share a disk with another operating
system at this time.</para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware-supported">
- <title>Supported Hardware</title>
-
- <para>Hardware architectures and devices supported by a &os;
- release are listed in the Hardware Notes file. Usually named
- <filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>, the file is located in the
- root directory of the release media. Copies of the supported
- hardware list are also available on the Release Information
- page of the &os; web site (<link
- xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html</link>).</para>
- </sect2>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="bsdinstall-pre">
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