From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 23:50:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D96116A47D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:50:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ijp@aanet.com.au) Received: from mail.aanet.com.au (mail.aanet.com.au [202.63.43.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 786FD43D5C for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:50:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ijp@aanet.com.au) Received: (qmail 32283 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jun 2006 23:50:33 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 32004, pid: 32183, t: 0.5740s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.88.1/m:37/d:1390 Received: from cust2534.qld01.dataco.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.13?) (202.63.53.230) by mail.aanet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jun 2006 23:50:33 -0000 Message-ID: <44988A12.1050102@aanet.com.au> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:51:46 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: <44mzccygvl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44mzccygvl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:50:37 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" > writes: > >> I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without installing any source code. Now (naturally), I want to get a hold of the kernel source so I can re-compile and enable support for PIM and Multicast Routing. >> >> However, I can't figure how to get the source off my CDs. I downloaded the ISO's for Disk 1 and Disk 2 of FreeBSD 6.1--RELEASE. >> Can anybody tell me where I can find the source code on these disks so I don't have to run a re-installation just to get it?? > > You can run sysinstall without doing an install. > If you really want to extract the source directly with tar, it's been > explained on this list a number of times over the years. > > Or get more up-to-date sources by cvsup, as someone else suggested. Or even better install the source from the CD then cvsup, save a lot of time and bandwidth :D