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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:13:12 +1000 (EST)
From: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net>
To: Regan Suzann Pylman <azrael@wizvax.net>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Source
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Regan Suzann Pylman wrote:
 
> Okie.  So... it's a package?  Cool.  I c'n do that.  I went to
> <ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org>, 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.
>

I think it should actually say it's a distribution, not a package.  An
easy way to install it is to run /stand/sysinstall (as root), choose
Configure, then Distributions, then src, then sys.  From there,
install it and you should be set.

Jim

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