From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 09:44:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0645B16A417 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7126A13C428 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile.ondsl.gr [83.235.244.135]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l6N9iK4c007904 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:44:29 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6N9i51T005173; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:44:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6N9i4Ia005172; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:44:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:44:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop> References: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.885, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.51, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing manual pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:44:37 -0000 On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >>> 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. Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am fully aware of the reality around me :) > 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. It's possible that sysinstall tries to fetch manpages from a non-existent place. You can download the 6.2-RELEASE manpages from the FTP site and install them manually. The manpages can be found at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ If you have wget installed, installing them should be as easy as: [1] Create an empty manpages/ directory # mkdir manpages [2] Enter the new manpages/ directory # cd manpages [3] Fetch the files from FTP # wget -nd -np -r -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: # ./install.sh That's all. You don't even need to run sysinstall for this :-)