Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:31:01 +0200
From:      Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: installing manual pages
Message-ID:  <ef855e8e16f964a07f262347f225339f@szalbot.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop>
References:  <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

Hi,

>> When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a
> result
>> do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify
> an
>> fpt server (via sysinstall) I get:
>>
>> Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.
>>
>> This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in sysinstall
>> options because otherwise it would complain that there is no such
>> distribution on the server.
>>
>> What should I do to have the man pages installed?
> 
> Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-)

Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this via
sysinstall and it fails. But I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I do not
have the FBSD iso image so I need to use an ftp server and here's where I
get stuck.

Warm regards,

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ef855e8e16f964a07f262347f225339f>