From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 16:25:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12577 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.wizvax.net (mailgate.wizvax.net [199.181.141.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12559 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from azrael@wizvax.net) Received: from lakota (lakota.wizvax.net [199.181.141.64]) by mailgate.wizvax.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id TAA17325 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:18:07 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981016192447.006a288c@mail1.wizvax.net> X-Sender: azrael@mail1.wizvax.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:24:47 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Regan Suzann Pylman Subject: Kernel Source Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay. I'll admit it. It was me. I did something stupid, and my /usr/src/sys directory was gone, accompanied by the sound of my system laughing at me... or was that the SCSI disk churning? Anyway, since I'd wanted to get to building a custom kernel this coming week, I thought I'd better replace it. I went to the handbook, to , and got the helpful advice: >Note: If there is not a /usr/src/sys directory on your system, then the kernel source > has not been been installed. Follow the instructions for installing packages to add this > package to your system. Okie. So... it's a package? Cool. I c'n do that. I went to , looked in /pub/FreeBSD/packages/All, and... hmm. Nothing helpfully labeled as 'kernel sources' or 'system sources', or, really, any sources at all. Up a level. No division for 'system' or 'kernel'. Okie... let's try /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE. No dice. To make a long story short, it would have been /really/ helpful for the handbook to tell you /what/ package needed to be added, but failing that, could some kind soul please take pity on poor newbie me, and point me to the right package? Please? Thank you! *=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=* I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion. --Margret Mead *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-* Regan S. Pylman azrael@coyotesdaughter.com http://www.coyotesdaughter.com/~azrael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message