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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: is there a complete "FreeBSD 9.X/10.X installation guide"
 download?
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Polytropon wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:40:02 +0800, wipedrivepro wipedrivepro wrote:
>> eg in .doc or .pdf format of
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall.html#bsdinstall-synopsis
>>
>> it's hard to download it one by one
>
> You can download the full HTML version (in opposite to the
> split HTML version you've refered to) from this source:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html
>
> This will contain the full handbook.
>
> Additional idea:
>
> Open this page in your web browser and press ^P. Redirect the
> output to a file (usually a .ps file). Then use ps2pdf to make
> a PDF file from it, and then use pdftk to extract the chapters
> you want to have (use a PDF viewer such as xpdf or gv to find
> the page numbers representing that range).

The HTML and PDF forms are downloadable directly:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/