From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 12:27:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C12D37B407 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462A343FAF for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003081319274101400krc02e>; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:27:41 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7DJRWKS045117; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:27:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h7DJRVKt045114; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:27:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: george donnelly References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 13 Aug 2003 15:27:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44k79hxsrg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Q's Subject: Re: /usr/share/dict/words not found on 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:27:45 -0000 george donnelly writes: > [Lowell Gilbert wrote (freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) on 8/13/03 > 1:24 PM] > > >> you need to install /usr/share/dict/words from the 'dict' distribution first > >> (This is done using /stand/sysinstall. The 'textproc/dict' port in the > >> ports tree is NOT what you need.) > > > > Please be more precise on what kind of help you need in following > > these directions. > > I do not see anything in sysintall related to this. What menu/heading is > this under in sysinstall? Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD then Distributions Install additional distribution sets then [ ] dict Spelling checker dictionary files It may not be exactly like this in 5.0, but that's part of why 5.x is so far recommended for people who have a pretty good idea of what they're doing.