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Date: 09 Mar 2002 20:58:00 -0800
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: www; Handbook missing link to important HARDWARE.TXT file.
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>Number:         35724
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       www; Handbook missing link to important HARDWARE.TXT file.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 09 21:00:05 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jul 13 14:24:18 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jul 13 14:24:18 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
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>Description:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x2805.html
refers to HARDWARE.TXT without providing a link to the file.  The people
who most need to know about hardware support often don't have the file
on their systems or on a CD-ROM or know how to find it at freebsd.org.

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>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
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>Fix:

Add a link to the file.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: bmah 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 13 14:19:42 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is a lot harder than it sounds.  The shortest way I can describe 
the problem is that the Handbook has to cover multiple versions of 
FreeBSD, each of which is available for multiple architectures.  There 
is no *one* HARDWARE.TXT file that we can point to.  While this is a 
good idea, I don't think it's practical. 

hardware.txt and hardware.html live on the top-level directory of the 
CDROMs and are linked from the main www.FreeBSD.org page.  They're also 
viewable in sysinstall (should someone succeed in booting the install 
media).  If someone can't find it from one of those places, I don't  
know what else we can do for them. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35724 
>Unformatted:
