From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 14: 7:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B44C37B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00533; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:07:29 -0700 Message-ID: <39E4D691.6FCCB9BF@urx.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:07:29 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hummel Cc: Lowell Gilbert , FSD Subject: Re: END OF THREAD ! [Why can't I get into the /sys directory ??] References: <39E3AF9A.CB24A2EC@ispchannel.com> <44itqzo1st.fsf_-_@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <39E4D200.EBD0EEDA@ispchannel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Hummel wrote: > > 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). I've been using cvsup so long that I can imagine doing it this way. The source is always available at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/src/, which changes for each release. You have all of these tiny files that you have to concatenate together and install. I also can't imagine not upgrading to 4.1.1-Stable but YMMV. Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message