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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