From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 13:48:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584A437B66C for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.31.81.146]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20001011205043.TNH382.smtp2a@ispchannel.com>; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:50:43 -0700 Message-ID: <39E4D200.EBD0EEDA@ispchannel.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:48:00 -0500 From: Mark Hummel Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert , FSD Subject: END OF THREAD ! [Why can't I get into the /sys directory ??] References: <39E3AF9A.CB24A2EC@ispchannel.com> <44itqzo1st.fsf_-_@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message