From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 2: 3:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA6037B405 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:03:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:03:20 +0000 Received: from fluoxetine.lan (unverified) by pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:03:20 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:06:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew McKay X-Sender: andy@fluoxetine.lan To: chia an Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it posible In-Reply-To: <20011221065505.39377.qmail@web13502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, chia an wrote: ca> is it posible to make my freebsd box stable by getting ca> source from my friends whoes freebsd system was ca> stable, i mean scopied the source /etc/src from my ca> friend, because i dont have internet conection /usr/src (assuming it is fully populated) contains all of the source code and information required to build a stable world. Copying this to another machine will not upgrade your machine to -STABLE but it will allow you to compile and install the -STABLE world and build a -STABLE kernel. -- Andrew McKay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message