From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 12:24:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00831 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00821 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA04159; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:24:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonny Pearson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: not recognizing my 48 megs of RAM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jonny Pearson wrote: > I'm having a problem with the first part. What is the "srcdist" or the > "kerndist"?? And where do I get one?? It says that I need to "load" one > of the two before I can go through the nine steps. These are old names for the entire source distribution or the kernel source distribution. You probably only need the kernel source, referred to as `ssys'. You can grab it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/src/ and get ssys.*. Then run `cat ssys.* | tar xzf -' to install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major