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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-04-27 09:33:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-04-27 09:33:13 +0000 |
| commit | e503384da56bdeb5bccc946e94c5c1e1b986640a (patch) | |
| tree | 0e6e44f198abd1161519c4db7fbbe40e4e7ba170 /en/hardware/installation-media.xml | |
| parent | 2df31b5466368bda8354964b9f162d8c6d78cfa8 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-e503384da56bdeb5bccc946e94c5c1e1b986640a.zip | |
Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall (and one by Jens Seidel)
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| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/installation-media.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/installation-media.xml b/en/hardware/installation-media.xml index 2aca9ef9e..cade1842f 100644 --- a/en/hardware/installation-media.xml +++ b/en/hardware/installation-media.xml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ On RiscPCs, SCSI CD-ROMs are also supported. On SGI machines, booting from CD-ROM requires a SCSI CD-ROM drive capable of working with a logical blocksize of 512 bytes. Many of the -SCSI CD-DROM drives sold for the PC market do not have this +SCSI CD-ROM drives sold on the PC market do not have this capability. If your CD-ROM drive has a jumper labeled <quote>Unix/PC</quote> or <quote>512/2048</quote>, place it in the <quote>Unix</quote> or <quote>512</quote> position. @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ IDE, SATA or SCSI card. On DECstations, booting from CD-ROM requires a SCSI CD-ROM drive capable of working with a logical blocksize of 512 bytes. Many of the -SCSI CD-DROM drives sold for the PC market do not have this capability. +SCSI CD-ROM drives sold on the PC market do not have this capability. If your CD-ROM drive has a jumper labeled <quote>Unix/PC</quote> or <quote>512/2048</quote>, place it in the <quote>Unix</quote> or <quote>512</quote> position. @@ -218,15 +218,15 @@ installed on the widest array of hardware. Generally, the Debian installation system includes support for floppies, IDE drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SCSI controllers and -drives, USB, and FireWire. The file systems supported include FAT, -Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT), and NTFS, among others. +drives, USB, and FireWire. The supported file systems include FAT, +Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT) and NTFS. </para><para arch="i386"> -The disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote> hard disk interface -which are often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA are supported. Very old 8 bit -hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer are supported only -as a module. SCSI disk controllers from many different manufacturers +Disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote> hard disk interface +— often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA — are supported. Very old +8–bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer are supported +only as a module. SCSI disk controllers from many different manufacturers are supported. See the <ulink url="&url-hardware-howto;">Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO</ulink> for more details. |