Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:06:40 +1300 From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) To: xcene@c2i.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No handbook / FAQ in FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <v02120d01b11497e21cff@[192.168.1.1]>
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At 1:26 AM 22/2/98, xcene/dance wrote: >Hi! >I just acquired the FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997 4cd release from Walnut Creek >CDROM, and installed on my PC. > >My problem is that I cannot be able to find the handbook or FAQ at all. >The default /etc/motd tells me to look in /usr/share/doc/handbook but there's >no such directory. I've tried reinstalling the DOC and INFO dists, but >still no >handbook available. The labelling of the CD's leaves a little to be desired. CD 4 is labelled Docs and Extra Utilities, but the docs seem to be mostly on CD 3, labelled CVS Repository. The docs are at file://FBSD225_3/WWW/INDEX.HTM or some capitalization variation thereof, depending what OS you're using to look at the docs while setting up FreeBSD. This is a right pain, since all the links are broken by the 8.3 file names. The same problem with file names cropped up when trying to install FreeBSD via FTP from my Mac. It would be really nice if the installer could look for the translation tables on the ftp site and make use of them rather than assuming that the remote site will do this. Andrew McNaughton The effort to understand the universe is Andrew McNaughton one of the very few things that lifts ++64 4 389 6891 human life above the level of farce, andrew@squiz.co.nz and gives it some of the grace http://www.squiz.co.nz of tragedy - Steven Weinberg http://www.newsroom.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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