Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.
On Monday 31 December 2007 01:53:15 pm Jim Stapleton wrote: > Thanks. I feel stupid now (through my own stupidity and not the fault > of anyone here but me). > > I should have looked at that before. I have always done a minimal > install of FreeBSD (well, for 6.1 and 6.2, didn't use FreeBSD before > that), and have not had any problems getting the man pages before. Is > this new, or is my memory going/gone? > > -Jim > the man pages all magically appear after a buildworld and upgrade, so you probably just never noticed in the past. i only do minimal installs too, and a while back, i remember i had the same issue. i had some systems with man pages, and some systems without. took me a bit to figure out that the ones that had them, were all updated, and the ones without, were all 'fresh' RELEASE installs. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.
Thanks. I feel stupid now (through my own stupidity and not the fault of anyone here but me). I should have looked at that before. I have always done a minimal install of FreeBSD (well, for 6.1 and 6.2, didn't use FreeBSD before that), and have not had any problems getting the man pages before. Is this new, or is my memory going/gone? -Jim On Dec 31, 2007 9:55 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the > > install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how > > I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? > > Boot up the system and log in as root. Then run sysinstall. Select > Custom -> Distributions -> Custom. From there you can select the > man distribution. Then OK your way back until sysinstall actually > installs the man pages. > > I expect you selected a "minimal" install when you installed, which > doesn't include man pages. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.
In response to "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the > install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how > I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? Boot up the system and log in as root. Then run sysinstall. Select Custom -> Distributions -> Custom. From there you can select the man distribution. Then OK your way back until sysinstall actually installs the man pages. I expect you selected a "minimal" install when you installed, which doesn't include man pages. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:41:05 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote: > None of the default man pages were installed on my system when I > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of the > install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does anyone know how > I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages? sysinstall -> Configure -> Distributions -> [x] man WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
