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Remove references to the now-deleted installation notes and add a

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pointer to the installation chapter of the Handbook (it might be a
good idea to sprinkle a few more through this article).

De-emphasize the floppy disk part of installation media; it's
generally believed that most users install from CDROM or DVD
nowadays.

Use &arch.* entities where appropriate.

Bump copyright date while here.

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<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
@ -52,13 +53,12 @@
<title>About &os;</title>
<para>&os; is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite for
DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha/AXP computers (alpha),
AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (amd64),
Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware (i386),
Intel Itanium Processor based computers (ia64),
NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (pc98),
and &ultrasparc; machines (sparc64). Versions
for the &powerpc; (powerpc), and &mips; (mips)
AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (&arch.amd64;),
Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware (&arch.i386;),
Intel Itanium Processor based computers (&arch.ia64;),
NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (&arch.pc98;),
and &ultrasparc; machines (&arch.sparc64;). Versions
for the &powerpc; (&arch.powerpc;), and &mips; (mips)
architectures are currently under
development as well. &os; works with a wide variety of
peripherals and configurations and can be used for everything
@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
provides a convenient way to quickly reinstall the system if
necessary. Some distributions include some of the optional,
precompiled <quote>packages</quote> from the &os; Ports
Collection.</para>
Collection, or other extra material.</para>
<para>A list of the CDROM and DVD publishers known to the
project are listed in the <ulink
@ -195,12 +195,12 @@
URL="&url.articles.hubs;/">Mirroring
&os;</ulink> article.</para>
<para>Mirrors generally contain the floppy disk images necessary
to begin an installation, as well as the distribution files
needed for the install process itself. Many mirrors also
contain the ISO images necessary to create a CDROM of
a &os; release.</para>
<para>Mirrors generally contain the ISO images generally used to
create a CDROM of a &os; release. They usually also contain
floppy disk images (for applicable platforms), as well as the
files necessary to do an installation over the network.
Finally mirrors sites usually contain a set of packages for
the most current release.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -296,8 +296,7 @@
provided in various formats. Most distributions will include
both ASCII text (<filename>.TXT</filename>) and HTML
(<filename>.HTM</filename>) renditions. Some distributions
may also include other formats such as PostScript
(<filename>.PS</filename>) or Portable Document Format
may also include other formats such as Portable Document Format
(<filename>.PDF</filename>).
<itemizedlist>
@ -321,12 +320,6 @@
been tested and is known to work.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><filename>INSTALL.TXT</filename>: Installation
instructions for installing &os; from its distribution
media.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><filename>ERRATA.TXT</filename>: Release errata.
Late-breaking, post-release information can be found in
@ -338,20 +331,10 @@
created.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note>
<para>There are various versions of
<filename>INSTALL.TXT</filename>, each containing information
specific to a particular hardware architecture.
The architecture
to which each document applies will be listed in that
document's title.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>On platforms that support &man.sysinstall.8; (currently
alpha, &i386;, ia64, pc98, and &sparc64;), these documents are generally available via the
&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.ia64;, &arch.pc98;, and &arch.sparc64;), these documents are generally available via the
Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is
installed, you can revisit this menu by re-running the
&man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para>
@ -403,7 +386,9 @@
url="&url.base;/docs.html">&os; Documentation
page</ulink> or its mirrors. If you install the
<filename>doc</filename> distribution set, you can use a Web
browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally.</para>
browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally. In particular,
note that the Handbook contains a step-by-step guide to
installing &os;.</para>
<para>A number of on-line books and articles, also maintained by
the &os; Project, cover more-specialized, &os;-related topics.