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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: <199605101726.NAA25401@ohm.merit.edu> (message from William Bulley on Fri, 10 May 1996 13:26:31 -0400 (EDT))
Subject: Re: sysinstall man page ???
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>>>>> William Bulley <web@merit.edu> writes:
> 
> I am new enough to FreeBSD to not know whether sysinstall(8) is an
> executable image or a shell script, but in either case I figured it
> would have a man page.  I looked for the sysinstall man page in the
> man pages I installed on my hard disk (from 2.1R CD-ROM), but there
> didn't seem to be any.  Either I don't know where to look, or I did
> not install enough stuff or there isn't one...  Any ideas?

It's an executable, or rather a gzip'd executable - you need to
compile a kernel with the 'gzip' pseudo-device before you can run it.

It's actually the installation program, BTW.

> BTW, I grabbed the man tarchive from ftp.freebsd.org and found this:
> 
>    unix% gzcat manpages.tgz | tar tvf - | grep sysinstall
>    unix%
> 
> Which tells me that there isn't any sysinstall man page in that
> particular tarchive...  :-(

Nope, it's documented in the install docs - and it has online help 8-)