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diff --git a/share/man/man4/vinum.4 b/share/man/man4/vinum.4
index 5f66c54..5d333ff 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/vinum.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/vinum.4
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\" otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if
 .\" advised of the possibility of such damage.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: vinum.4,v 1.9 1999/03/23 04:57:24 grog Exp grog $
+.\" $Id: vinum.4,v 1.10 1999/04/13 01:16:28 grog Exp grog $
 .\"
 .Dd 28 March 1999
 .Dt vinum 4
@@ -189,89 +189,39 @@ as described above.
 If the VINUMDEBUG variables do not match, vinum(8) will fail with a message
 explaining the problem and what to do to correct it.
 .Pp
-.Nm
-is currently available in two versions: a freely available version which does
-not contain RAID-5 functionality, and a full version including RAID-5
-functionality, which is available from Cybernet Systems
-Inc.   See their web page at 
-.Pa http://www.cybernet.com .
 .Sh RUNNING VINUM
-Normally, you start a configured version of
-.Nm
-at boot time.  Set the variable
-.Ar vinum_drives
-in
-.Ar /etc/rc.conf
-to indicate the slices on which 
 .Nm
-drives are located.  For example, if you have 
-.Nm
-drives on
-.Ar /dev/da1h ,
-.Ar /dev/da2h ,
-.Ar /dev/da3h ,
-.Ar /dev/da4h 
-and
-.Ar /dev/da5h ,
-you would set the variable to:
-.Bd -literal
-vinum_drives="/dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3 /dev/da4 /dev/da5"
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.Sh VINUM INSTALLATION
-The freely available version of the
-.Nm
-kld is called 
-.Pa /modules/vinum.ko ,
-and the RAID-5 version is
-.Pa /modules/Vinum.o .
-To load the module:
-.Pp
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# kldload vinum
-.Ed
-.Pp
-.Nm vinum(8)
-also automatically loads the kld module if it is not yet loaded.
-.Pp
-After loading
+is part of the base FreeBSD system.  It does not require installation.
+To start it, start the
+.Nm vinum
+program, which will load the kld if it is not already present.
+Before using
 .Nm vinum ,
-it must be configured.  In an existing installation, the following command reads
-the configuration an existing set of disks:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# vinum read /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3 /dev/da4 /dev/da5 /dev/da6
-.Ed
-.sp
-This command must specify all of the devices used by
-.Nm vinum .
-.Nm vinum(8) 
-reads the configuration from the device with the newest configuration file, then
-updates it if necessary with additional information from successively older
-configurations.  These commands are normally embedded in the startup file
-.Pa /etc/rc .
-.Pp
-See
+it must be configured.  See
 .Xr vinum 8
 for information on how to create a
 .Nm
 configuration.
 .Pp
-To unload the kld, first find the
-.Ar Id
-field in 
-.Pa kldstat:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# kldstat
-Id Refs Address    Size     Name
- 1    2 0xf0100000 1c7de8   kernel
- 2    1 0xf0f5b000 b0000    Vinum.ko
-.Ed
+Normally, you start a configured version of
+.Nm
+at boot time.  Set the variable
+.Ar start_vinum
+in
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf
+to
+.Ar YES
+to start
+.Nm
+at boot time.
 .Pp
-To unload the module, use
-.Pa kldunload:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# kldunload -n Vinum
-.Ed
+If
+.Nm
+is loaded as a kld (the recommended way), the
+.Nm vinum Ar stop
+command will unload it.  You can also do this with the
+.Nm kldunload
+command.
 .Pp
 The kld can only be unloaded when idle, in other words when no volumes are
 mounted and no other instances of the
@@ -1013,7 +963,11 @@ Greg Lehey
 .Pa <grog@lemis.com> .
 .Sh HISTORY
 .Nm vinum
-first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
+first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.  The RAID-5 component of
+.Nm
+was developed by Cybernet Inc. 
+.Pa www.cybernet.com
+for its NetMAX product.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr vinum 8 ,
 .Xr disklabel 5 ,