handbook version

[Kris Kennaway]

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
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