From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 09:31:10 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 7A93316A417 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:31:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDA413C478 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:31:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from www (helo=www) by szalbot.homedns.org with local ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:31:02 +0200 To: Giorgos Keramidas X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:31:01 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot In-Reply-To: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop> References: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop> Message-ID: X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Freebsd questions 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 09:31:10 -0000 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