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authorjfieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>1995-05-10 11:34:07 +0000
committerjfieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>1995-05-10 11:34:07 +0000
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parent0536195d4a85c8f9d5bb493cdbe819bad3d329e9 (diff)
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Toplevel reorganization and integration of Poul-Henning Kamp's section
on the booting process.
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-rw-r--r--share/doc/handbook/booting.sgml18
-rw-r--r--share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml129
2 files changed, 59 insertions, 88 deletions
diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/booting.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/booting.sgml
index a4371d6..a0ba825 100644
--- a/share/doc/handbook/booting.sgml
+++ b/share/doc/handbook/booting.sgml
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
This conversion has been made by Ollivier Robert.
- $Id: boot-overview.sgml,v 1.1 1995/04/27 08:50:46 roberto Exp $
--->
-<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//Linux//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
+ $Id: booting.sgml,v 1.1 1995/04/28 19:48:56 jfieber Exp $
+
+
+<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
<article>
@@ -19,6 +20,15 @@
</abstract>
<toc>
+-->
+
+ <chapt><heading>Booting FreeBSD on a PC</heading>
+
+ <p><em>Contributed by &a.phk;. v1.1, April 26th.</em>
+
+ Booting FreeBSD is essentially a three step: Load the kernel,
+ determine the root filesystem and initialize user-land things. This
+ leads to some interesting possibilities shown below.
<sect>Loading a kernel
<p>
@@ -160,6 +170,6 @@
This is particular interesting since you can boot from a write-
protected floppy, but still write to your root filesystem...
</descrip>
- </article>
+
diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml
index 3050ae6..01ae7e6 100644
--- a/share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml
+++ b/share/doc/handbook/handbook.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: handbook.sgml,v 1.1.1.1 1995/04/28 16:19:59 jfieber Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: handbook.sgml,v 1.2 1995/05/10 00:12:18 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN" [
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<!ENTITY bibliography SYSTEM "bibliography.sgml">
<!ENTITY basics SYSTEM "basics.sgml">
+<!ENTITY booting SYSTEM "booting.sgml">
<!ENTITY ctm SYSTEM "ctm.sgml">
<!ENTITY current SYSTEM "current.sgml">
<!ENTITY dialup SYSTEM "dialup.sgml">
@@ -49,9 +50,9 @@ OUTLINE:
<title>FreeBSD Handbook
<author>
- <name></name>
- <!-- <date> -->
-
+ <name>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</name>
+ </author>
+ <date>May 6, 1995</date>
<abstract>Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the
installation and day to day use of FreeBSD.
@@ -66,94 +67,52 @@ OUTLINE:
<toc>
+<!-- ************************************************************ -->
+
+ <part><heading>Basics</heading>
<chapt><heading>Introduction</heading>
-
<sect><heading>FreeBSD In a nutshell</heading>
-
<sect><heading>History</heading>
-
<sect><heading>About this release</heading>
-
<sect><heading>FreeBSD now and in the future</heading>
-
<chapt><heading>Installing FreeBSD</heading>
-
<sect><heading>Preparing for the installation</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Hardware checklist</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>minimal requirements</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>IRQs, IO Addresses, and DMA channels</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Software checklist</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>Making the installation floppies</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>CD-ROM</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>Tape</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>Disk</heading>
-
<sect><heading>Installation</heading>
-
<sect><heading>Set up a user account</heading>
&basics;
<chapt><heading>Installing applications</heading>
-
<sect><heading>Installing packages</heading>
&ports;
&porting;
- <chapt><heading>Reconfiguring the kernel</heading>
-
- <p>Once you have your FreeBSD system installed and
- operational it is a good idead to re-configure the
- kernel. You may also need to re-configure the kernel if
- you add, change, or remove hardware from your system.
-
- <p>
-
- <chapt><heading>Basic Networking</heading>
- <sect><heading>Ethernet basics</heading>
- <sect><heading>Serial basics</heading>
- <sect><heading>Hardwired Terminals</heading>
- &dialup;
-
- <chapt><heading>PPP and SLIP</heading>
+<!-- ************************************************************ -->
- &ppp;
- &slipc;
- &slips;
+ <part><heading>System Administration</heading>
- <chapt><heading>Advanced networking</heading>
- <sect><heading>Gateways and routing</heading>
- &nfs;
- <sect><heading>Yellow Pages/NIS</heading>
- &diskless;
- <sect><heading>ISDN</heading>
-
- <chapt><heading>Mail</heading>
+ <chapt><heading>Reconfiguring the kernel</heading>
- <chapt><heading>Printing</heading>
-
<chapt><heading>Users, groups and security</heading>
-
<sect><heading>DES, MD5 and Crypt</heading>
-
&kerberos;
-
<sect><heading>S/Key</heading>
-
<sect><heading>Firewalls</heading>
<chapt><heading>The X-Window System</heading>
+ <chapt><heading>Printing</heading>
+
<chapt><heading>Managing hardware</heading>
&scsi;
<sect><heading>adding/reconfiguring disks</heading>
@@ -162,73 +121,75 @@ OUTLINE:
<sect><heading>sound cards</heading>
<chapt><heading>PC Hardware compatibility</heading>
-
<sect><heading>CORE/PROCESSING</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Motherboards</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>ISA</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>EISA</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>VLB</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>PCI</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>CPUs/FPUs</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Memory</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>BIOS</heading>
-
<sect><heading>INPUT/OUTPUT</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Video cards</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Sound cards</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Serial ports (including multiport cards)</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Parallel ports</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Modems</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Etherenet cards</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Keyboards</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Mice</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Other (joysticks? tablets?)</heading>
-
<sect><heading>STORAGE</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Disk/tape controllers</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>SCSI</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>IDE</heading>
-
<sect2><heading>Floppy</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Hard drives</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Tape drives</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>CD-ROM drives</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>Other</heading>
-
<sect><heading>OTHER</heading>
-
<sect1><heading>PCMCIA</heading>
+<!-- ************************************************************ -->
+
+ <part><heading>Network Communications</heading>
+
+ <chapt><heading>Basic Networking</heading>
+ <sect><heading>Ethernet basics</heading>
+ <sect><heading>Serial basics</heading>
+ <sect><heading>Hardwired Terminals</heading>
+ &dialup;
+
+ <chapt><heading>PPP and SLIP</heading>
+ &ppp;
+ &slipc;
+ &slips;
+
+ <chapt><heading>Advanced networking</heading>
+ <sect><heading>Gateways and routing</heading>
+ &nfs;
+ <sect><heading>Yellow Pages/NIS</heading>
+ &diskless;
+ <sect><heading>ISDN</heading>
+
+ <chapt><heading>Mail</heading>
+
+
+
+<!-- ************************************************************ -->
+
+ <part><heading>Advanced topics</heading>
+ &booting;
&current;
&ctm;
&sup;
+ <chapt><heading>Kernel debugging</heading>
&troubleshooting;
&submitters;
+ <part><heading>Additional resources</heading>
&bibliography;
&eresources;
&glossary;
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