When you perform FreeBSD 6.x minimal installation, it skips additional distribution sets such as man and info pages. Man and info page offers extensive documentation.
It is very easy to add man or info pages to FreeBSD post installation. You need to use tool called sysinstall. The sysinstall utility is the pre and post installation application provided by the FreeBSD. It is console based and is divided into a number of menus and screens that you can use to configure and control the installation process. It can be use to install packages very easily:
Install man pages
a) Login as root user
b) Type the following command:
# /usr/sbin/sysinstall
Please note that if you are using FreeBSD old version such as 5.0 use /stand/sysinstall command (path is changed):
# /stand/sysinstall
c) The sysinstall menu system is controlled by the arrow keys, Enter, Space, and other keys. Select menu option as follows:
Configure > Distributions > Select Man and Info by press space bar > Ok
Now select man and info pages.
When prompted for to choose Installation media select either CD or FTP/HTTP.
Select FTP site and it will start to installation.
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After having toyed with FreeBSD 5 I was wondering what had happened to sysinstall and obviously I couldn’t rtfm!
Thanks!
Use full path /usr/sbin/sysinstall on newly installed FreeBSD 6.x systems.
HTH
thanks for your article. it’s help me a lot.
I have FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4, when Select FTP site and it will start to installation,
sее Can’t find the `7.2-RELEASE-p4′, How can you be?
I have the same problem. I have FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 and when I select FTP site it says Can’t find the `7.2-RELEASE-p4′. So I can’t install man pages and info through sysinstall. What I have to do to fix it?
lykich, kalim, when you choose a source to install from, go to Options and remove “-p#” from Release Name. After succesful install change Release Name back.