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From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Handbook doesn't mention drivers.flp for 5.0 installs
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>Number:         44594
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook doesn't mention drivers.flp for 5.0 installs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    danger
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 29 09:10:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Wed Aug 30 13:16:28 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Wed Aug 30 13:16:48 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Bruce A. Mah
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nimitz.packetdesign.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #45: Mon Oct 14 11:50:11 PDT 2002 root@nimitz.packetdesign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIMITZ i386


	
>Description:

FreeBSD 5.0 supports a drivers.flp floppy that contains device drivers
that wouldn't fit on either kern.flp or mfsroot.flp.  Unlike the 
drivers on mfsroot.flp, those on drivers.flp need to be manually loaded
from within sysinstall(8), using the Configure->Load KLD menu item.
This is mostly applicable to floppy installs.  CDROM installs use a
standard GENERIC kernel.

The installation chapter of the Handbook doesn't document this.

>How-To-Repeat:

A good example of this is a floppy boot to sysinstall, followed by an
attempted network installation over an em(4) interface.

>Fix:

Turn the above notes into real English, mark them up (screenshots as 
necessary), and drop them into the right place in the installation chapter 
of the Handbook.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: danger 
State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 30 13:10:33 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Close this PR as we don't ship drivers.flp any more for the latest 
releases from 4.x, 5.x or 6.x. drivers.flp has been  
removed when the FreeBSD bootstrapper was made to support booting from  
multiple floppies 

Pointed out by: Niclas Zeising <lothrandil@n00b.apagnu.se> 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44594 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->danger 
Responsible-Changed-By: danger 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Aug 30 13:16:33 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Make me responsible. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44594 
>Unformatted:
