From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 23:39:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14511 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14504 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:39:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA28676; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:39:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: aj@gims.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel files In-Reply-To: <352E1644.F1EA9475@gims.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 aj@gims.net wrote: > I need to build a cutome kernel but am not sure what files I need to > load the source on my server. Is there one tar file that will build the > source directory or do I need to pull the contents of a directory down > to my server? I don't currently have the kernel source code on my > server. You need the ssys.* files in the src/ directory for your release on the CD or FTP site. If you have the CD and can mount it, running `cd /cdrom/src; ./install.sh sys' is the easy way. Otherwise run `cd /usr/src; cat /path/to/ssys.* | tar xzf -'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message