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>
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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
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