From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 8:14:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AD6E37B408 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from j42.kch20.jaring.my (HELO acidic.ars.org) (161.142.55.56) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 15:14:29 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:26:39 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53t) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1826945166.20010926212639@yahoo.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: doc - dont know how to make install? In-Reply-To: <20010926072334.A1466@hades.hell.gr> References: <1881665695.20010924182912@yahoo.co.uk> <20010924142722.B75389@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010925041334.A2359@hades.hell.gr> <1573611753.20010925140553@yahoo.co.uk> <20010926072334.A1466@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 12:23:34 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Alvin Sim wrote: >> >> >> I guess you'll not succeed at all. What are the contents of /usr/doc ? >> >> Is there a file called Makefile in there? If not then you need to go back and >> >> re-read the HOWTO you were following. >> >> yes, i do have a /usr/doc directory including a Makefile in it. >> >> > True. This is what he should do :) >> >> heh heh... that was what i did afterwards only to find that freebsdzine >> has been down for 2 days (for me). if i remember correctly, it was the >> HOW-TO on keeping the docs up-to-date. > Well, there is always the doc-project primer. It's available on the web too. > Look at the "Documentation" stuff of the left-side navogation bar at the > usual http://www.freebsd.org/ pages :-) > That should help you a lot in understanding what you need to rebuild the > documentation from it's SGML sources. thanks for the pointer. i'll do just that and try to make the appropriate ports which i'm sure i have done so following the how-to on freebsdzine's but i may have missed something or one of the ports didnt install properly. anyways, since i'm on a dialup and downloading some (maybe) quite huge ports would probably take some time, i'll report back on how it goes when i'm done. again, thanks. > -giorgos ~as -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message