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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:48:00 -0500
From:      Mark Hummel <mhumm@ispchannel.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, FSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   END OF THREAD ! [Why can't I get into the /sys directory ??]
Message-ID:  <39E4D200.EBD0EEDA@ispchannel.com>
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My heart-felt thanks to Lowell, and all who helped me with this challenge!

I'm a bit wiser now thanks to all of you.

Fact:  I don't have sources for the 4.1.1 R install.

Fact:  I found out that the default or main ftp site I was using for the install
doesn't have ver 4.1.1R's sources.  (Does anyone know the URL so I can get them?)

Assumption:  I can't customize or create my own kernel until I download the sources
which includes the customizable text file for the GENERIC kernel (I know I can do a
basic customization via sysinstall).


Thanks again

Mark



Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> mhumm@ispchannel.com (Mark Hummel) writes:
>
> > When I had FBSD 4.0 installed, I could easily get into the /sys directory.  Why
> > can't I get into it now?
>
> At our best guess, because when you had FreeBSD 4.0, you installed the
> sources, but with this new system, you never installed them at all.
> But it's hard to say, because you haven't really given enough
> information to be sure.  Before you post back to the list again,
> *please* just type "ls /usr/src" and tell us if "sys" was one of the
> things that was echoed back in the directory listing.
>
> >                           Besides, where is the default kernel file GENERIC
> > located?  Isn't it somewhere below the /sys directory?
>
> It's in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf [assuming you're running an i386
> system, and assuming you have the sources installed].  /sys is
> irrelevant:  it's just a symbolic link, and it will point to
> /usr/src/sys regardless of whether there *is* a /usr/src/sys or not.



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