From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 12:18:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02923 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu (dmorrisn@D-128-95-141-106.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.141.106]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.11) with ESMTP id MAA03580; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:18:41 -0700 Message-ID: <355F38AE.58E1FC7D@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:21:18 -0700 From: Don Morrison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linda North CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't install source files References: <355EF360.9B35F939@afn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I installed FreeBSD recently, the source files were not installed. > The /usr/src directory is present, but empty and /src exists. > I tried using the installation utility to install the sources, but > I only get a flash of "attempting . . . " and then return to the > installation screen, source files still not installed. Check to see if you have enough space. > I have checked to see that all files are present before attempting to > install them from my dos partition, but have had no luck. > > Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance. If you have a fast connection to the internet or don't mind waiting forever, try this as root: pkg_add -f ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message