From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 09:25:49 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 A632016A469 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0630213C469 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile.ondsl.gr [83.235.244.135]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l6N9PXEa007364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:25:41 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6N9PFCC005000; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:25:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6N9PEgS004999; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:25:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:25:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop> References: <746c56430359ae03aaf76d24c7bfcceb@szalbot.homedns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <746c56430359ae03aaf76d24c7bfcceb@szalbot.homedns.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.884, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.52, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No 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 09:25:49 -0000 On 2007-07-23 11:12, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > Hello, > > 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? :-)