From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 20:39:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F58A16A47E for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:39:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B92843D45 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:39:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 19826 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2006 20:39:43 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jun 2006 20:39:43 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id BA50F2844A; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:39:42 -0400 (EDT) To: "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:39:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard A. RDECOM CERDEC STCD Mayo's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:27:31 -0400") Message-ID: <44mzccygvl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:39:44 -0000 "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" writes: > I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without installing any source code. Now (naturally), I want to get a hold of the kernel source so I can re-compile and enable support for PIM and Multicast Routing. > > However, I can't figure how to get the source off my CDs. I downloaded the ISO's for Disk 1 and Disk 2 of FreeBSD 6.1--RELEASE. > Can anybody tell me where I can find the source code on these disks so I don't have to run a re-installation just to get it?? You can run sysinstall without doing an install. If you really want to extract the source directly with tar, it's been explained on this list a number of times over the years. Or get more up-to-date sources by cvsup, as someone else suggested. Shall we go on? There are more possibilities, albeit less generally useful.