handbook version

[Kris Kennaway]

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. 
> > > I've never heard of a .pdb...
> >
> > Did you read the README file in that directory?
> >
> > Kris
> 
> I don't see a README, just 16 files beginning with book and 2 files with 
> handbook.  I was using Konqueror, so I open a term and tried ftp. Still no 
> 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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