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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:02:50 -0400
From:      Nathan Rosenquist <freebsd@ratherlargerobot.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD Handbook correction?
Message-ID:  <550101DA.9090807@ratherlargerobot.com>

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Hello,

I'm working through the section 15.3 in the FreeBSD Handbook: "Creating 
and Controlling Jails" [1].

One of the commands in this section of the guide didn't work for me, due 
to an invalid path.

The guide says:

-- BEGIN SNIPPET --

To install just the base system, run the next command when using 
FreeBSD 9.x or newer:

|#|  *|tar -xf /mnt/freebsd_install/usr/freebsd_dist/base.txz -C $DESTDIR|*

-- END SNIPPET --

I am using the FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-DVD-1.iso disk, and it does 
not seem to have this path.

After poking around with find and grep, it seems like perhaps the guide 
should be updated to use the following path on FreeBSD 10.1, or at least 
the version found on this DVD.

Potentially change:

     /mnt/freebsd_install/usr/freebsd_dist/base.txz

To:

     /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz


It is also worth noting that I didn't use the following command from the 
guide to mount the DVD:

*|     mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt
|*


Instead, I stuck the DVD in the drive and mounted it like so:

     mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt

I *believe* it might be the same difference, but I'm switching to 
FreeBSD after years of primarily using Linux, and wanted to mention it 
in case you couldn't reproduce my results.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html

Thanks,
-Nathan

P.S. The documentation for FreeBSD is so nice! It's a real relief, 
compared to the majority of the other things out there.



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