Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml @@ -140,37 +140,33 @@ Minimum Hardware Requirements - The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by the - hardware architecture. Hardware architectures + The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by + architecture. Hardware architectures and devices supported by a &os; release are listed on the Release Information page of the &os; web site (http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html). + xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html). + The &os; download page also has recommendations for choosing the + correct image for different architectures (https://www.FreeBSD.org/where.html). - A &os; installation will require a minimum 64 MB of - RAM and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space - for the most minimal installation. However, that is a - minimal install, leaving almost no - free space. RAM requirements depend on usage. Specialized - FreeBSD systems can run in as little as 128MB RAM while desktop - systems should have at least 4 GB - of RAM. + A &os; installation requires a minimum of 64 MB of + RAM and 1.5 GB of free hard drive space. + However, such small amounts of memory and disk space are really + only suitable for custom applications like embedded appliances. + General-purpose desktop + systems need more resources. 2-4 GB RAM and + at least 8 GB hard drive space is a good starting point. - The processor requirements for each architecture can be - summarized as follows: + These are the processor requirements for each architecture: &arch.amd64; - This is the most common type of processor desktop and - laptop computers will have. Other vendors may call this - architecture x86-64. + This is the most common desktop and laptop processor type, + used in most modern systems. &intel; calls it Intel64. + Other manufacturers sometimes call it x86-64. - There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64; - processors: &intel; (which produces - Intel64 class processors) and AMD - (which produces AMD64). - Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;, multi-core &intel; &xeon;, and @@ -181,7 +177,7 @@ &arch.i386; - This architecture is the 32-bit x86 + Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86 architecture. Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating @@ -190,12 +186,12 @@ &os; will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) support on - CPUs that support this feature. A + CPUs with this feature. A kernel with the PAE feature enabled will detect memory above 4 GB and allow it to be used - by the system. This feature places constraints on the - device drivers and other features of &os; which may be - used; refer to &man.pae.4; for details. + by the system. However, using PAE places constraints on + device drivers and other features of + &os;. Refer to &man.pae.4; for details. @@ -1673,8 +1669,8 @@ If one or more disks are missing from the list, or if disks were attached after the installer was started, select - Rescan Devices to repopulate the list - of available disks. To ensure that the correct disks are - selected, so as not to accidently destroy the wrong disks, the + of available disks. + To avoid accidentally erasing the wrong disk, the - Disk Info menu can be used to inspect each disk, including its partition table and various other information such as the device model number and serial number, @@ -1737,7 +1733,7 @@ Shell Mode Partitioning When creating advanced installations, the - bsdinstall paritioning menus may + bsdinstall partitioning menus may not provide the level of flexibility required. Advanced users can select the Shell option from the partitioning menu in order to manually partition the drives,