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136 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Joerg Wunsch
e02a6ccb4e Heavily re-worked.
Updated to 2.0 .

Included sections about how to use DDB, post-mortem analysis of
a kernel crash where you didn't anticipate it and therefore
didn't config -g it.  Added a real-world example of a kgdb session.
1995-01-02 12:01:59 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
21e19d0143 More changes to the FAQ, just to annoy Ollivier.. :-) 1994-12-29 16:42:10 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
57d7186a4c Sigh.. Finally add a 6.0 section on what you need to do to actually
configure a new kernel.
1994-12-28 02:39:29 +00:00
Gary Clark II
663abed6d2 Add slip_server FAQ from Guy Helmer
Submitted by: Guy Helmer
1994-12-13 17:48:46 +00:00
Gary Palmer
6ac234951f Add kryten.atinc.com 1994-12-06 19:48:07 +00:00
Scott Mace
b22bafcacc Add ftp.neosoft.com mirror. 1994-12-06 16:07:16 +00:00
Gary Clark II
f2311444d3 Added entry to Systems.FAQ
Added note about lp TCP/IP driver
Added notes about b004, cx, ctx and pcaudio
Updated perl entry to point to ftp site that has it

NOTE:  If you have a system running 2.0 please email me (FAQ@freebsd.org)
       tell what you have so I can include it!
1994-12-05 08:02:15 +00:00
Gary Palmer
c4e294accb Add ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE 1994-12-04 21:15:59 +00:00
Gary Palmer
903448b1da Add two sites in the UK - src.doc.ic.ac.uk and unix.hensa.ac.uk 1994-12-04 01:10:47 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a268c1cec5 More comments on tape installs. 1994-12-02 20:27:11 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
64499a1b6c Fix some long-standing english wonkiness. 1994-12-01 13:24:20 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
e54a328608 Document how to re-enable the floppy-tape drive. 1994-11-30 13:17:50 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f8de047922 Keith Walker's "howto" notes on preparing floppy or tape distribtution
fodder.  Thanks, Keith!  Much needed!
1994-11-30 11:59:53 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
3a7ab8e060 Add entry for Australia. 1994-11-29 23:44:07 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
74c8239d6a Add additional sites from ftp list. Put germany in proper
alphabetical order.
1994-11-29 22:43:15 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d6da96e176 Add uni-duisburg Germany site. 1994-11-29 22:31:03 +00:00
Guido van Rooij
f89cc4ce98 Add ftp.nl.net to MIRROR.SITES. 1994-11-29 18:23:21 +00:00
Andreas Schulz
1a61bcff48 Add the 3C501 to the supported hardware list. 1994-11-28 21:52:15 +00:00
Andreas Schulz
86b41cccd2 Add the NCR 53C825 and the 3com 3C507 and 3C579 to the supported
hardware list.
1994-11-28 19:23:19 +00:00
Satoshi Asami
9a96872aa3 Add a site in Northern Japan. 1994-11-28 06:46:49 +00:00
Andreas Schulz
66f2024ac6 Correct a typo in my mailing address and also use the new alias for my
machine. I should better rename it soon from g386bsd to freebsd to
avoid confusion with the new 386BSD release :-).
1994-11-27 13:06:18 +00:00
Satoshi Asami
d58baccfd1 Typo. 1994-11-26 12:10:37 +00:00
Satoshi Asami
94c13683b4 Added some Japanese sites that carry 2.0-RELEASE. 1994-11-25 23:13:26 +00:00
Gary Clark II
156cca51f5 Add entry about missing perl libs. Would someone please add a tar file of
these to freefall.cdrom.com:~/pub/perl/libs.tar.gz.
1994-11-25 19:40:25 +00:00
Doug Rabson
e59e6a8322 Update the RenderMorphics entry.
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
1994-11-23 13:13:12 +00:00
Gary Clark II
8af9982ad9 Add entry about problems with BT-946c's and some Intel MB's.
Obtained from: Paul Richards
1994-11-23 10:21:59 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
b68ce711aa Point people at the troubleshooting guide in advance. 1994-11-22 10:57:36 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
9168526dbf Document the "old boot blocks" problem. 1994-11-22 10:55:55 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
403d1a0fc2 A few tweaks. 1994-11-22 09:54:19 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b9833ef2e Thanks guys. 1994-11-22 09:16:46 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
48ae41e5f9 Changes to README for release. 1994-11-22 08:58:42 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a822466469 Update the X Inside, Inc text to include some stuff Jeremy just sent me. 1994-11-22 06:58:09 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
dfbabf6ea2 1. Add instructions for installing onto a second disk.
2.  Clean up the FAQ just a bit.
1994-11-22 06:48:39 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bbc9e5fc7e More Helpful Hints from Heloise. 1994-11-21 04:11:28 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
5821901779 Changes for BETA 1994-11-21 01:32:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
96d4a2b4e1 (M)ountpoint -> (A)ssign 1994-11-21 01:30:03 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
89da5fd2de Document the AHA-274x and 284x driver as a new feature. 1994-11-18 14:26:07 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
e9a380faf6 Talk a little more about boot roms. 1994-11-18 13:02:23 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
10c3815c46 Add these files. They're referenced in the release notes. 1994-11-18 12:03:29 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
30ddff9dfb Document "(P)rocede" - (Q)uit was still being billed as the method
for continuing the installation! :-)
1994-11-18 10:32:43 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d2e60eeb05 Add some notes about AIX-6x60 based cards. Important to note that
you CAN'T boot from many of these puppies!
1994-11-18 03:10:32 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
e5525d9d0d Adjust the docs to note that the AHA-2742/2842 series is now supported.
Hurrah for Justin!
1994-11-18 01:12:13 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ccac3799a7 Steven G Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Finds many spelling errors.  Thanks, Steven!
Submitted by:	steven
1994-11-17 12:35:24 +00:00
Martin Renters
f832250eb5 Instructions for setting up diskless clients 1994-11-16 15:33:42 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
4ef84c6a4e sendbug -> send_pr 1994-11-14 23:52:42 +00:00
Nate Williams
0f1f11ef34 Added the DEC ethernet cards to the list of supported ethernet drivers. 1994-11-13 21:17:38 +00:00
Nate Williams
e369a78c55 Added VLB to the list of PC busses supported since this question comes up
often on USENET.

Added comments regarding the new 'extended IDE' controllers, which work with
FreeBSD but do not use the extended features.

Minor formatting changes.
1994-11-13 09:19:04 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a47758ac19 Add my first-cut at a very short troubleshooting document. We can add
more stuff here as people report it.
1994-11-13 01:21:11 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8a03984548 Move the README here, with a few updates. 1994-11-12 02:24:28 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
f10ad5791f Typos fixed by Michael E. and Gary J. Thanks, guys!
Submitted by:	me,gj
1994-11-11 07:39:40 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
af75c6de49 Whoops! I wrapped. Try again. 1994-11-10 04:11:58 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
0d4cd18b56 Add some more information on FreeBSD's default security.
Make this a little more readable and fix some typos.
1994-11-10 03:51:18 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8ac098442c Document that we support 1522 controllers now. 1994-11-09 23:26:57 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
af34aca310 Changes from Gary Palmer to make all this stuff fit on the screen!
Submitted by:	gpalmer
1994-11-09 02:51:21 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
55cfde8297 Damn!! I left Soren's name off the core team roster by mistake! :-( :-(
I'm going to re-roll the boot floppies to have this in, and hopefully
Poul will update it into his world tree before making the bin tarballs.
Be a real shame to leave this incorrect!  Very sorry, Soren!  It was
simply an updating oversight! :-(
1994-11-08 20:17:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
1391719225 Don't install Makefile 1994-11-08 18:54:33 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ca6aa03bec Make installs better, install the FAQ stuff, don't install CVS-dirs. 1994-11-08 03:58:52 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
4a815f5a2f Release notes for the ALPHA release. "What's new" information from README
is now here.
1994-11-08 03:33:13 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
02e5217ba0 Just a little last-minute stylistic cleanup. 1994-11-07 10:35:55 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
adec1b64b3 Put this here instead. 1994-11-05 08:11:22 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
de0ad7f292 De-Danish this. Add a lot more chatty commentary in my own inimitable style. 1994-11-05 06:54:49 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f0385dbd1f This file is the documentation for the fdisk/disklabel part of sysinstall,
and will be available from the boot.flp with just one key-stroke.  Somebody
will want to purge any danishisms from it before is is let loose...
1994-11-05 05:54:21 +00:00
Andreas Schulz
9a3a04ad26 Added a reference for the GENERIC kernel. 1994-10-31 10:03:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
b92776661f Add this from Mark Dapoz. It requires LaTeX to format it, but it's
sure a lot better than nothing.
Submitted by:	md
1994-10-25 13:47:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c357ae875b A nice little PPP.doc file from:
Submitted by:	Gennady B. Sorokopud ( gena@NetVision.net.il )
1994-10-24 17:51:54 +00:00
Gary Clark II
862af1e655 updated mailing lists and took out refs to 1.1 be around. 1994-10-10 10:46:14 +00:00
Gary Clark II
bb7937be61 update mailing lists
Changed around some directorys in the FAQ
(Thanks Jordan)
1994-10-10 10:39:10 +00:00
Paul Traina
403ef23238 Update multicasting FAQ entry 1994-10-09 01:14:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d8bd99269c This file describes new features, conventions or newly introduced "gotchas"
that a user coming from a 1.x environment should know about.

See the notes in the file for more info.
1994-10-08 17:57:45 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
9805e8c5a7 Add HW.TROUBLE to ROADMAP. 1994-10-08 03:15:53 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
9ee942c1ac Put this here, moving it from /usr/src. 1994-10-08 03:10:34 +00:00
Gary Clark II
05cbf1006d Added entrys for GCC and cleaned it up more. 1994-10-03 04:28:03 +00:00
Gary Clark II
7eabd9a9b8 Update hosts (From *.cdrom.com to FreeBSD.org)
update to 2.0 era
1994-10-03 03:48:42 +00:00
Gary Clark II
0e730153ed Small cleanup. 1994-10-03 03:31:13 +00:00
Gary Clark II
d0f6b00881 Update to 2.0 era. 1994-10-03 03:28:22 +00:00
Gary Clark II
2804345332 Show this FAQ as being for 1.1.5.1 and below. 1994-10-03 03:19:41 +00:00
Gary Clark II
d646c3011d Re-org of file. Delete information that is 1.x only. Update and add entrys
for 2.0.
1994-10-01 15:04:58 +00:00
Gary Clark II
62a14fa304 Added new entry 1994-09-16 18:51:50 +00:00
Gary Clark II
66a82712a0 Added first system entry (mine)
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
1994-09-16 18:46:09 +00:00
Gary Clark II
f26b0603d2 Added version string (All new FAQ stuff should have one) 1994-09-16 18:35:24 +00:00
Gary Clark II
c731a0a5b4 Started cleaning up FAQ directory for 2.0.
Move old FAQ to FreeBSD-1.1.FAQ
Started new FAQ
Move old Systems to Systems-1.1.FAQ
Started new Systems
moved slip-dialup to Slip.FAQ (Needs to be reworked for 2.0)

More work to come...
1994-09-16 18:24:41 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ce72790607 Update this to list all of our cvs* mailing lists, describing each one
in some small detail.
1994-09-14 09:50:56 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8dde57bcc2 Add Remy Card's freebsd mirror in France. 1994-09-13 18:24:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
5efd8d820e Add a roadmap to all the files in this directory, plus some text
about submitting FAQ entries.  Gary?  Where are yooooou? :-)
1994-09-13 08:24:07 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
0289c61f1c Bring back MIRROR.SITES, now listing 2.0 sites only. 1994-09-13 08:17:52 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
194165de5d Reviewed by: jkh
Submitted by:	jkh gclarkii paul satoshi freebsd-hackers
These are the FAQ files, reorganized a bit and updated marginally for 2.0.
There is *still more work to be done* in updating, so if some of your FAQ text
is below, please check it over!  We've also got a lot of FAQ entries still
to write (examples: "how do I upgrade?" "what's new in 2.0?" "how do I
install on a notebook/second drive/from DOS/etc etc etc?"
1994-09-11 10:56:10 +00:00