Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/02/18/0001.html

Port forwarding is a topic that I'll leave alone (aside from
mentioning that it sounds like you're using ssh to do that---which
should work, but if you can trust your office LAN well enough, the
encryption between your Win2K and NetBSD box is probably not needed;
I think you can do forwarding using IPNat/ipf).

What I will comment on is the comment that "It appears that the version
of NetBSD that [you] downloaded was trying to keep things small".

I am not aware of anyone repackaging a stripped-down subset of NetBSD.
Hopefully, such don't exist (you can always choose not to install
everthing when you get the standard setup!).  Hopefully, if they do
exist, they are clearly labeled as incomplete.

I suspect that you did one of three things to lose the man-pages:

 * The tarball with the man-pages was corrupted when you downloaded
   it, and when you unpacked it you didn't notice it.

 * You used the normal, automated sysinst installer and selected
   a custom install---and then selected an installation configuration
   that omitted man pages.  Unless you have truly extraordinary
   circumstances, I'd recommend at full installation until you know
   what you need and don't need.  (With disk space so vast, I find
   it easiest to just install everything, including X, even on a
   machine that will "of course" be a headless server.)

 * You did a manual install and forgot (or didn't know that you
   needed) to do something.  Maybe several somethings.

   Although you may learn some things from doing a manual install,
   I think that the best way to be sure that the install is correct
   and complete is to use the automated sysinst if you can.  It's
   very quick and easy.


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