How to get books?

[hruodr]

With the installation of FreeBSD I always got a directory /usr/share/doc/en/books or something like
that containing the handbooks. I do not find it in my installation of FreeBSD 10.0.

I think bsdinstall asked for it as I installed it, but I did not have Internet connection.

Is it possible to get this documentation with bsdinstall or pkg after the installation?

Thanks
Rodrigo

 

[wblock@]

The books and articles can be installed as a port, misc/freebsd-doc-en for English. That builds them all from source, which adds some overhead. Current versions of all of the books and documents are available on the web site: http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html as HTML, or can be downloaded in various formats from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/.

 

[hruodr]

Thanks!

"some overload" is an understatement.

I only wanted the simple HTML manuals. It began to compile and fill my computer with a lot of software. At the end it failed, because it did not find pciids-20131130.tar.xz in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles.

Where do I find pciids-20131130.tar.xz?

And what would have done bsdinstall(8) if I had internet connection when I installed?

Rodrigo.

 

[wblock@]

The HTML versions are built each day and put on the FTP site above. For example, the single HTML version of the Handbook in English is at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html.tar.bz2.

I don't know what bsdinstall(8) does.