From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 13:04:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00322 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00314 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00279; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:04:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: How to make new kernel from cdrom instead of HD In-Reply-To: <199608250807.IAA33574@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I ran out of disk when installing Xfree. I want to delete the sources > for the kernel. What files do I need to delete for the kernel sources > and how can I compile them afterwards using the life filesystem > instead of copying them to my HD? Well, realize that compiliing the kernel requires disk space to hold the .o files and the finished kernel. You could build a symlink tree using the x 'lndir' utility, but you still need some space to hold the output files. lndir /cdrom/src/sys /usr/src/sys Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major