From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 11 10:57:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cae.wisc.edu (galaga.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE2137B40A for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schlitz.cae.wisc.edu (schlitz.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.240.138]) by cae.wisc.edu (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA11880 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:57:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from carder@localhost) by schlitz.cae.wisc.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g5BHvjI03683 for doc@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:57:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:57:45 -0500 From: "Dale W. Carder" To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Handbook 9.3 Message-ID: <20020611125744.C3450@cae.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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 I was following the directions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html for me 4.5 machine, and I think that the command in the example is wrong. cat /cdrom/sys/ssys.[a-d]* | tar -xzvf should be: cd / cat /cdrom/src/ssys.[a-d]* | tar -xzvf - The path (at least) on my 4.5 cd is /cdrom/src not /cdrom/sys. Without the cd /, you will spew what you untar wherever you are (like I just did). Also tar -f expects a filename, '-' means STDIN. If I'm wrong, I guess just ignore me. -Dale To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message