From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 04:39:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CFA716A420 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:39:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336343D5D for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:39:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 6284 invoked by uid 85); 12 Sep 2005 04:39:27 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.435821 secs); 12 Sep 2005 04:39:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 12 Sep 2005 04:39:25 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:39:08 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050912042733.D491043D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912042733.D491043D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2874620.TpoBjD833x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509112039.22758.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: David Christensen Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man 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, 12 Sep 2005 04:39:32 -0000 --nextPart2874620.TpoBjD833x Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 11 September 2005 08:27 pm, David Christensen wrote: > FreeBSD-questions: > > I'm an FreeBSD newbie who just did a minimal install of FreeBSD 4.11 on > some vintage hardware, only to discover that the man pages seem to be > missing. So I STFW, found the following: > > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-01/0= 56 >8.htm l > > > ran /stand/sysinstall, and installed the man pages distribution. But, I > still get the following: > > dpchrist@p166v:~$ man man > No manual entry for man > > > I seem to recall running a "mandb" utility on a GNU/Linux installation > sometime in the past, but I can't seem to find the FreeBSD equivalent (if > there is such a thing). > > > Searching this list's archive for "No manual entry for man" didn't yield > the answer. > > > Any suggestions? > Boot off the install disk. Choose "Do a post install configuration". Choose= =20 "Additional Distribution Sets" - "Man" Install. Cheers Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2874620.TpoBjD833x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDJQZ6Vq19LUoGB+MRAgyTAKC/crtnlUTl6f2ogerIvR0lV5lp2QCgxhLl 4lmFCNbO6GNR5TFg3J1b1Ac= =VEAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2874620.TpoBjD833x--