Minimal Installation

Giorgos · Feb 10, 2010

When i installed FreeBSD i selected a minimal installation which i figure out later that man pages are not installed. Now after i have done some freebsd-updates and uname -a results:

Code:

FreeBSD  8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan  5 21:11:58 UTC 2010     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

when i try to install via sysinstall i get an error as it doesn't find release 8.0-p2 in ftp sites.
What can i do?

Beastie · Feb 11, 2010

Download the manpages and anything else (but base and kernels) from the FTP.
Then install them by executing the install.sh script included.

fronclynne · Feb 11, 2010

Also, if you install from source via [build|install]world, it will install all the man pages.

jgh@ · Feb 11, 2010

You can install them via 'sysinstall' command.

go to post configuration options
distributions
custom
man pages

before downloading change options in sysinstall for download to point to 8.0-RELEASE and then you should be good.

Minimal Installation

Giorgos

Beastie

fronclynne

jgh@