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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2014-03-22 01:55:31 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2014-03-22 01:55:31 +0100
commitbe46e04c376a8b495a954105c26098387f95c0b2 (patch)
treec94eb10cd3932ad0beeb54f176444af8475e0fa0 /faq
parente82850ab28a8f5c0ab90597116f95ae8b3928628 (diff)
Update FAQ
Diffstat (limited to 'faq')
-rw-r--r--faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--faq/apt_umount.mdwn28
-rw-r--r--faq/fd.mdwn21
-rw-r--r--faq/old_faq.txt12
-rw-r--r--faq/software.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--faq/sudo.mdwn16
6 files changed, 9 insertions, 74 deletions
diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
index 6b48cc5f..210d8afb 100644
--- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
+++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!tag faq/support]]
-[[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB Partition Limit?"]]
+[[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?"]]
-The 2 GiB limit has been removed in Debian GNU/Hurd.
+The 2 GiB limit has been removed.
IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB.
diff --git a/faq/apt_umount.mdwn b/faq/apt_umount.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index c8dc3eb4..00000000
--- a/faq/apt_umount.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
-Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!tag faq/debian]]
-
-[[!meta title="apt: unmount cdroms"]]
-
-You can add a shell script umount so that apt can automatically unmount cdroms.
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # Filename: /usr/bin/umount
-
- settrans -fg "$@"
-
-Give executable permission to the script.
-
- # chmod +x /usr/bin/umount
-
-In `/etc/fstab` add a trailing `/` after cdrom like `/cdrom/` since apt uses a
-trailing `/`.
diff --git a/faq/fd.mdwn b/faq/fd.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index bae611f8..00000000
--- a/faq/fd.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
-Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!tag faq/open_issues]]
-
-[[!meta title="I'm getting I/O eror, dev 02:00, sector 0"]]
-
-dev 02:00 is the floppy drive. This message simply means that reading the floppy
-was attempted, but no floppy disk was inserted, so it failed. It commonly
-happens during installer disk detection, or grub setup, and is completely
-harmless.
-
-To avoid it, you can as well remove `/dev/fd0` (do you really have a floppy
-around you anyway?)
diff --git a/faq/old_faq.txt b/faq/old_faq.txt
index e370277e..7946062e 100644
--- a/faq/old_faq.txt
+++ b/faq/old_faq.txt
@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ prompt.
?? How do I enable color on the console?
{NHW} If you are using the GNU Mach microkernel, you can set your
-terminal to `mach-color'. For instance:
+terminal to `mach-gnu-color'. For instance:
- # export TERM=mach-color
+ # export TERM=mach-gnu-color
?? How can I enable virtual consoles?
@@ -238,15 +238,15 @@ then hitting C-A-<backspace> will exit it.
?? What is the status of X?
{MB} It works! The packages are available at any Debian ftp mirror.
-XFree86 4.0.2 is available, as are some of the v3 servers. Instructions
+Xorg is available, as are some of the v3 servers. Instructions
on how to use the packages are in the mailing list archive (link follow
later).
?? What are these strange pids `0`, `2', `3', `4`, and `5`?
-{MB,ST} Zero is the `proc` processus server (and thus does not really have a pid
-:) ) Two is the kernel, three is the root filesystem server, four is the `exec`
-server (which handles starting programs), five is the `auth` server (which
+{MB,ST} Zero is the kernel, one is the root filesystem server, two is the
+`exec` server (which handles starting programs), three is the init process, four
+is the `proc` processus server, five is the `auth` server (which
handles user authentication).
?? Why does `ps aux' give me strange output?
diff --git a/faq/software.mdwn b/faq/software.mdwn
index 4ab7bbfc..719e123c 100644
--- a/faq/software.mdwn
+++ b/faq/software.mdwn
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]]
-As of March 2013, 78% of all [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
+As of March 2014, 79% of all [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
[packages](http://packages.debian.org/) are available for [[Debian
GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]]. Of course, testing and bug fixing is welcome,
as we have obviously not tested all of them.
diff --git a/faq/sudo.mdwn b/faq/sudo.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e2a76e7..00000000
--- a/faq/sudo.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
-Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[!tag faq/running]]
-
-[[!meta title="dhclient, halt, mke2fs not available through sudo su"]]
-
-Debian GNU/Hurd's ``sudo su`` does not add `/sbin` into `PATH`, unlike Linux has
-been doing since recently. One has to use ``sudo su -`` .