local copy of handbook

Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 04:57:32 UTC 2008


On Monday 29 December 2008 2:46:42 am Masoom Shaikh wrote:
> hello list,
>
> in my previous FBSD installations i always had a local copy of handbook
> never bothered how it got there, until now. i lost my installation due to
> some good ups. reinstalled minimal 7.0 and build installed kernel & world
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD raptor 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec 17
> 13:27:42 UTC 2008     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARGON18  amd64
>
> now i cannot see local copy of handbook, i had look at FreeBSD
> Documentation Primer
> but that seems overkill and geared towards contributing documentation
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/
>
> also I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ?
> also csup didn't help here is my csup file
>
> *default tag=RELENG_7
> *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default base=/var/db
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> src-all
> doc-all
>
> csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!!
>
> hints and help ?
>
> Masoom Shaikh
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sysinstall -> Configure -> Distributions -> docs ?

Have fun :)
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Gonzalo Nemmi


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