Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
I have downloaded another copy of base2_0.tgz from ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/.1/Linux/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-17/base2_0.tgz and found that it too is missing the command files. I say they are missing because when I install the system the man command is not present on the drive. Also, when I unzip the files on my WIn95 machine Winzip encounters errors and cannot create the output file man(because ot's not there). Does anyone know of a package that includes these files? I have noticed a lot of commands are missing which I believe should be in the basic install. Also, my /proc directory is full of zero byte files. When I ran cat kmsg from /proc/ I noticed that kmsg is a zero byte file ( I do have ls -l and vdir) and that there are many zero byte files in this directory. Is this normal? Jim