From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 18:37:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 18:37:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lyn.net (unknown [206.132.201.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB7A37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:37:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.132.201.54] (unverified [206.132.201.54]) by mail.lyn.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:07:19 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:37:37 -0600 Subject: Re: Help with documentation From: Andy Rowland To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would, if I were you, go to the FreeBSD website at www.freebsd.org and read, or even better, get, in probably .pdf or .rtf format, the FreeBSD Handbook. It explains a *lot* of the basics of configuring/running FreeBSD. Or, if your BSD machine is running somewhat, and you have lynx or something like that installed, look in /usr/share/doc/handbook. There's an html version of it there. You can also go to ftp.freebsd.org (or mirror site) and get it in .PDF format, among others. --HTH -- --Andy Rowland Grand River Network andy@tigertown.k12.mo.us rowland@lyn.net > From: Matthew Peacock > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:26:31 +1000 > To: "Freebsd (E-mail)" > Subject: Help with documentation > > Hello, > > I am new to FreeBSD and I recently purchased a FreeBSD toolkit that includes > a CD with the entire web pages and CVS repository on it. On viewing the > directories contained within the CD I could see that each file had the > suffix ",v" appended to it. I was hoping that I would be able to use the CD > to look up tutorials and how to's but the information contained within the > sgml files is not able to be properly read in netscape. Must I somehow > install the documentation pages before I am able to view it in netscape and > use the hyperlinks etc. Ironically, I'm sure that the documentation in the > sgml pages on the CD explains all this, but I am unable to read it properly > until I learn how to install it. I looked up the doumentation primer at > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/ > but it said "the > document assumes that you already know How to maintain an up-to-date local > copy of the FreeBSD documentation by maintaining a local copy of the FreeBSD > CVS repository". Can anyone please point me towards a how-to or expalin to > me how I install the documentation pages from the CD? > > Thanks in advance, > Matthew Peacock > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message