Bug#364546: Debian Installer Manual: hardware.po
Package: debian-installer manual
Version:
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n, patch
I have just translated the hardware.po section of the manual. While
doing so, I noticed the following typos or errors, which I thought
you might like to clear up before release.
I'm not sure if the above tags will work for this report, if i have
them correctly, so have sent a copy to you, Frans. I hope that's OK.
Sorry it's taken me so long to find time to continue working on the
Manual. I hope I can get it done before release, if that is still
useful.
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1.
po:293
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:859
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 There are four major flavors of supported
<emphasis>&architecture;</emphasis> flavors: Amiga, Atari, Macintosh
and VME machines. <snip>
"flavors" is used twice in this sentence:
There are four major flavors of supported X flavors.
2.
po:321
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1070
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 Serial console is available on all supported
DECstations (9600 bps, 8N1). For using serial console, you have to
boot the installer image with the <literal>console=ttyS</
literal><replaceable>x</replaceable> kernel parameter (with
<replaceable>x</replaceable> being the number of the serial port you
have your terminal connected to — usually <literal>2</literal>,
but <literal>0</literal> for the Personal DECstations). On 3MIN and
3MAX+ (DECstation 5000/1xx, 5000/240 and 5000/260) local console is
available with the PMAG-BA and the PMAGB-B graphics options.
+
A serial console is available on all supported DECstations (9600 bps,
8N1). To use the serial console, ... being the number of the serial
port to which you have your terminal connected ... a local console is
available via the PMAG-BA and the PMAGB-B graphics options.
3.
.po:329
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1139
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 Most systems use this kernel flavour, which supports
the PowerPC 601, 603, 604, 740, 750, and 7400 processors. All Apple
Power Macintosh systems up to and including the G4 use one of these
processors.
- systems
+ machines
OR
+ processor configurations
The G4 is not a system: it is the type of processor configuration,
and therefore is usually used to identify the machine. My laptop is
an iBook G4, that's họw it is classified, based on the overall
hardware config, and on the processor config. powering the machine.
When I look at About This Mac in my Apple menu, it ignores the
hardware config entirely and simply says "Processor: PowerMac 1.2 GHz
G4". (More detailed hardware config is available via "More Info...".)
I would also strongly recommend you change "Macintosh" to "Mac" or
"Apple Mac" throughout your documentation. No Mac user calls it the
Macintosh, and Apple certainly doesn't. "What are you running?" "I've
got a Mac." My Apple menu says "About This Mac", not "About This
Macintosh", and our help documentation is called "Mac Help", not
"Macintosh Help".
The word Macintosh is also more confusing for readers of other
languages, too, since it's a difficult word to work out, not
structured as will make sense in many languages. Combined consonant
sounds are difficult for speakers of many languages.
4.
po:339
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1197
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 Macintosh computers using the 680x0 series of
processors are not in the PowerPC family but are instead m68k
machines. Those models start with <quote>Mac II</quote> or have a 3-
digit model number such as Centris 650 or Quadra 950. Apple's pre-
iMac PowerPC model numbers have four digits.
You're forgetting the LC models. I had a LCIII, which was a 68030.
The LCs came between the Mac II and the Quadra. I later had a Quadra,
which was a 68040.
- Those models start with <quote>Mac II</quote> or have a 3-digit
model number such as Centris 650 or Quadra 950.
+ Those models start with <quote>Mac II</quote> series, go on to the
<quote>LC</quote> family, then the Centris series, and culminate in
the Quadras. These models usually have a Roman numeral or 3-digit
model number such as Mac IIcx, LCIII or Quadra 950. This group of
machines also includes the laptops Mac Portable, Powerbook models
100-190cs and Powerbook Duo models 210-280c.
This model range started with the Mac II (Mac II, IIx, IIcx, IIci,
IIsi, IIvi, IIvx, IIfx), then the LC (LC, LCII, III, III+, 475, 520,
550, 575, 580, 630), then the Mac TV, then the Centris (610, 650,
660AV), the Quadra (605, 610, 630, 650, 660AV, 700, 800, 840AV, 900,
950), and finally the Performa 200-640CD, an excellent line of
machines. Very reliable, robust and capable.
In laptops, it started with the Mac Portable, then the PowerBook
100-190cs and the PowerBook Duo 210-550c (excluding PowerBook 500
which is Nubus, please see the section below).
Please feel free to use this information. It is correct and
comprehensive, which will help users with different models of
machines. You can refer to MacTracker, or any of the Mac information
sites.
5.
NuBus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The
monolithic Linux/PPC kernel architecture does not have support for
these machines; instead, one must use the MkLinux Mach microkernel,
which Debian does not yet support. These include the following:
<itemizedlist> <listitem><para> Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100 </
para></listitem> <listitem><para> Performa 5200, 6200, 6300 </para></
listitem> <listitem><para> Powerbook 1400, 2300, and 5300 </para></
listitem> <listitem><para> Workgroup Server 6150, 8150, 9150 </para></
listitem> </itemizedlist> A linux kernel for these machines and
limited support is available at <ulink url=\"http://nubus-
pmac.sourceforge.net/\"></ulink>
It's probably not a bad thing that you have a Mac devotée translating
these strings. ;)
The NuBus Macs have he 603 and 604 processors: the Power Mac
4400-9600, the Twentieth Anniversary Mac, the Performa 5200CD-6420
and the laptops PowerBook Duo 2300c/100, Powerbook 500, and
PowerBooks 1400-5300. This series also includes the Workgroup Server
6150-9650, and the Network Server 500-700.
- These include the following: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> Power
Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100 </para></listitem> <listitem><para>
Performa 5200, 6200, 6300 </para></listitem> <listitem><para>
Powerbook 1400, 2300, and 5300 </para></listitem> <listitem><para>
Workgroup Server 6150, 8150, 9150 </para></listitem> </itemizedlist>
+ These machines with NuBus 603 and 640 processors include the
following: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> <i>desktop</i> Power
Macintosh 4400 to 9600 </para></listitem> <listitem><para>
<i>desktop</i><i>desktop</i> Twentieth Anniversary Mac </para></
listitem> <listitem><para> <i>desktop</i> Performa 5200CD to 6420 </
para></listitem> <listitem><para><i>laptop</i> PowerBook Duo 2300c/
100</para></listitem> <listitem><para><i>laptop</i> PowerBook 500</
para></listitem> <listitem><para><i>laptop</i> PowerBook 1400 to 5300
</para></listitem> <listitem><para><i>server</i> Workgroup Server
6150 to 9650</para></listitem> <listitem><para><i>server</i> Network
Server 500 to 700</para></listitem> </itemizedlist>
6.
po:423
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1653
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 Multi-processor support — also called
<quote>symmetric multi-processing</quote> or SMP — is supported
for this architecture. The standard Debian &release; kernel image was
compiled with SMP support. This should not prevent installation,
since the SMP kernel should boot on non-SMP systems; the kernel will
simply cause a bit more overhead.
- Multi-processor support ... is supported for this architecture.
+ Multi-processor capacity ... is supported for this architecture.
7.
po:441
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1808
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 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 capability. <snip>
- SCSI CD-DROM
+ SCSI CD-ROM
- sold for the PC market
+ sold in the PC market
OR
+ designed for the PC market
8.
po:460
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1943
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 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.
- The file systems supported include ... among others.
+ The file systems supported include ...
OR
+ Debian supports the file-systems ..., among others.
"include" and "among others" are mutually exclusive. One is a sample
set, the other describes the remaining part of the superset.
9.
po:461
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:1950
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 The disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote>
hard disk interface which are often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA are
supported. <snip>
- The disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote> hard disk
interface which are often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA are supported.
+ The disk interfaces that emulate the <quote>AT</quote> hard disk
interface, often called MFM, RLL, IDE or ATA, are supported.
OR (better, less fragmentation)
+ Debian also supports the disk interfaces that emulate the
<quote>AT</quote> hard disk interface, often called MFM, RLL, IDE or
ATA.
Currently, the reader can't tell which interfaces, the emulators or
the original, are called MFM etc.
10.
po:488
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:2187
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 You can help this situation by encouraging these
manufacturers to release the documentation and other resources
necessary for us to program their hardware, but the best strategy is
simply to avoid this sort of hardware until it is listed as working
in the <ulink url=\"&url-hardware-howto;\">Linux Hardware
Compatibility HOWTO</ulink>.
- You can help this situation
+ You can help in this situation
OR
+ You can help improve this situation
11.
po:512
reference: ⑤ hardware.xml:2406
flag: ⑤ no-c-format
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 Any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux
kernel are also be supported by the boot disks. <snip>
- Any network interface card ... are also supported ...
+ Any network interface card ... is also supported ...
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I hope this is useful.
Clytie Siddall (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team /
nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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