Use a disk with sufficient free space. A full copy of the documentation and web site files takes over 700 MB. Allowing a full gigabyte provides some breathing room. This space will hold the XML tools, the documentation tree, temporary build space and the installed web pages.
Make sure the documentation ports are updated to the latest version. See the Handbook section on ports for more information.
svn
is needed to check out the
documentation and web site files from the
doc
Subversion repository.
svn
can be installed with pkg_add(1)
or from the FreeBSD Ports Collection by running:
#
cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion
#
make
install clean
To check out the source files for the FreeBSD web site and the rest of the documentation, run:
%
svn checkout https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org
/doc/head/ ~/doc
svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org
is a public SVN
server. Select the closest
mirror and verify the mirror server certificate from the list
of
Subversion
mirror sites.
After the checkout completes, the current version of the
FreeBSD documentation, including the web site files, will be
present in
~/doc
.
This, and other documents, can be downloaded from http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
For questions about FreeBSD, read the
documentation before
contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.