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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:43:34 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: handbook version
Message-ID:  <20041216024334.GA79830@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200412152125.07678.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
References:  <200412151850.27169.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <200412152108.13068.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <20041216021824.GA79436@xor.obsecurity.org> <200412152125.07678.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:25:07PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:18 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:08:12PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > > > > You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install =
it
> > > > > > using the installer from the relevant release.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kris
> > > > >
> > > > > I can't figure this out.  I've set Options...release to "any" and=
 to
> > > > > "." to no avail.
> > > >
> > > > If you use e.g. the 4.10 installation media, you should not have to
> > > > change any options to get the 4.10 docs.
> > > >
> > > > > And I logged in via ftp and perused the directory structure and
> > > > > tried packages-4.10-release, still no joy.
> > > >
> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc
> > > >
> > > > Kris
> > >
> > > I don't have 4.10 media, I installed from 4.7 and have been tracking
> > > -stable since then.
> >
> > Right, so you'd need to *get* 4.10 install media (e.g. boot floppies).
> >
> > > I'm currently running 4.11-prerelease.  I followed the ftp link
> > > in your last mail, but I see 18 files and I don't know which I need.=
=20
> > > I've never heard of a .pdb...
> >
> > Did you read the README file in that directory?
> >
> > Kris
>=20
> I don't see a README, just 16 files beginning with book and 2 files with=
=20
> handbook.  I was using Konqueror, so I open a term and tried ftp. Still n=
o=20
> README.  I did download the book.pdf and can read it.

> fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/README
fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/README: size of remote file is=
 not known
README                                                1624  B 8857 kBps

It's there.

Kris

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