From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 2 4:54:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ECB37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA3643E4A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08161; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:54:40 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id EAA04987; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210021154.EAA04987@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: helmut_gruder@hotmail.com Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (helmut_gruder@hotmail.com) Subject: Re: Doc update Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >a CD and untarring the /usr/sys directory will not allow you to Yeah its /usr/src/sys and that's in the book. I'm also confused by this. I just reread chapter 9 and the steps it takes are just about the same as the ones I take when I install apm (I install sources via the /stand/sysinstall option and I build with the "traditional" option all according to the chapter). Now the fact that this is what I have done for version after version of FreeBSD, just about the same way always, may leave me oblivious to some of the alternate ways to interpret this document. What went wrong with yours? Tangent: Let me also say that it was something of a surprise to find out that much of what I used to reconfigure the kernel for can be taken care of by just fiddling with loader.conf (though I don't know if apm falls into that), so I think I could criticize chapter 9 for not having a section "do you really need to rebuild the kernel" to explain this. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message