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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:14:18 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        funkycolmedina <dustpan@earthlink.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Missing kernel sources (was: kernel building error)
Message-ID:  <19981209161418.G12688@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981209001737.006b9148@earthlink.net>; from funkycolmedina on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:17:37AM -0500
References:  <3.0.3.32.19981209001737.006b9148@earthlink.net>

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On Wednesday,  9 December 1998 at  0:17:37 -0500, funkycolmedina wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 - RELEASE last night and when I went to
> rebuild the kernel for PS/2 mouse support, I found out that there were no
> files at all in my /usr/src directory when switching to
> /ur/src/sys/i386/conf.  Has an installation problem occured?  

Looks like it.

> The only delimna I ran into during installation was that XF86Setup
> failed to work and I had to do a <ctrl>-<c> type deal (I think it
> worked) amd then used SF86Config.  Other than that, all went well.

Did you ask the system to install the kernel sources?

> I did notice, however, that there are a few other directories
> totally empty of files, even though it was listed, I was unable to
> switch to the /sys directory.  I kept on saying "Could not find file
> or directory"

/sys is a symlink to /usr/src/sys, the kernel sources.  So this is the
same thing.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, since you don't say how you got the software, I can't give you
much advice about how to install what's missing.  But the standard
2.2.5 kernel (no longer the newest) includes a driver for a PS/2
mouse.  Reboot, enter the kernel configuration menu, and enable the
PS/2 mouse, which is normally disabled.

Greg
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