svn commit: r49254 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 12 18:02:54 UTC 2016
Author: wblock
Date: Fri Aug 12 18:02:53 2016
New Revision: 49254
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49254
Log:
Update Handbook hardware requirements. Patch supplied by Timothy Moore
II <timmoore88 at gmail.com> (slightly modified).
PR: 210360
Submitted by: Drew <drew at gurkowski.com>
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 Fri Aug 12 12:59:35 2016 (r49253)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Fri Aug 12 18:02:53 2016 (r49254)
@@ -140,36 +140,33 @@
<sect1 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware">
<title>Minimum Hardware Requirements</title>
- <para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by the
- hardware architecture. Hardware architectures
+ <para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by
+ architecture. Hardware architectures
and devices supported by a &os; release are listed 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>
+ <link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">&os; Release Information</link>
+ page.
+ The <link xlink:href="&url.base;/where.html">&os; download page</link>
+ also has recommendations for choosing the
+ correct image for different architectures.</para>
+
+ <para>A &os; installation requires a minimum of 64 MB of
+ <acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space.
+ However, such small amounts of memory and disk space are really
+ only suitable for custom applications like embedded appliances.
+ General-purpose desktop
+ systems need more resources. 2-4 GB RAM and
+ at least 8 GB hard drive space is a good starting point.</para>
- <para>A &os; installation will require a minimum 64 MB of
- <acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space
- for the most minimal installation. However, that is a
- <emphasis>minimal</emphasis> install, leaving almost no
- free space. RAM requirements depend on usage. Specialized
- FreeBSD systems can run in as little as 128MB RAM while desktop
- systems should have at least 4 GB
- of <acronym>RAM</acronym>.</para>
-
- <para>The processor requirements for each architecture can be
- summarized as follows:</para>
+ <para>These are the processor requirements for each architecture:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.amd64;</term>
<listitem>
- <para>This is the most common type of processor desktop and
- laptop computers will have. Other vendors may call this
- architecture <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para>
-
- <para>There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64;
- processors: &intel; (which produces
- <acronym>Intel64</acronym> class processors) and AMD
- (which produces <acronym>AMD64</acronym>).</para>
+ <para>This is the most common desktop and laptop processor type,
+ used in most modern systems. &intel; calls it <acronym>Intel64</acronym>.
+ Other manufacturers sometimes call it <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para>
<para>Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors
include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;,
@@ -181,7 +178,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.i386;</term>
<listitem>
- <para>This architecture is the 32-bit x86
+ <para>Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86
architecture.</para>
<para>Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating
@@ -190,12 +187,12 @@
<para>&os; will take advantage of Physical Address
Extensions (<acronym>PAE</acronym>) support on
- <acronym>CPU</acronym>s that support this feature. A
+ <acronym>CPU</acronym>s with 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>
+ by the system. However, using <acronym>PAE</acronym> places constraints on
+ device drivers and other features of
+ &os;. Refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -250,8 +247,8 @@
<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>
+ the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/platforms/sparc.html">FreeBSD/sparc64 Project</link>.</para>
<para><acronym>SMP</acronym> is supported on all systems
with more than 1 processor. A dedicated disk is required
@@ -1673,8 +1670,8 @@ Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:92:d4, Host ID
<para>If one or more disks are missing from the list, or if
disks were attached after the installer was started, select
<guibutton>- Rescan Devices</guibutton> to repopulate the list
- of available disks. To ensure that the correct disks are
- selected, so as not to accidently destroy the wrong disks, the
+ of available disks.
+ To avoid accidentally erasing the wrong disk, the
<guibutton>- Disk Info</guibutton> menu can be used to inspect
each disk, including its partition table and various other
information such as the device model number and serial number,
@@ -1737,7 +1734,7 @@ Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:92:d4, Host ID
<title>Shell Mode Partitioning</title>
<para>When creating advanced installations, the
- <application>bsdinstall</application> paritioning menus may
+ <application>bsdinstall</application> partitioning menus may
not provide the level of flexibility required. Advanced users
can select the <guibutton>Shell</guibutton> option from the
partitioning menu in order to manually partition the drives,
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