From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 10:42: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.jonelrienton.org (dsl-64-34-25-237.telocity.com [64.34.25.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76CE037B502 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:41:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 51283 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2000 18:04:48 -0000 Received: from debian (10.29.22.23) by zeus with SMTP; 9 Oct 2000 18:04:48 -0000 Message-ID: <021f01c03219$f6646640$17161d0a@jonelrienton.org> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: "Mark Hummel" , "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" Cc: "FSD" References: <39E1FF8B.63DF2C50@ispchannel.com> Subject: Re: Can't get into /sys directory ?? Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:54:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you can install the src distribution set thru /stand/sysinstall | configure | Distributions | src or thru CVSup hth Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org sent by qmail-1.03 on a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hummel" To: "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" Cc: "FSD" Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Can't get into /sys directory ?? | Uli, | | I don't understand what you mean "...installing the sources, before I enter | them." Take a look at your / directory. In it, you will find a | subdirectory called sys. If you long list (ll) the root directory (/), | you'll see that sys is actually a symbolic link to /usr/src/sys. I also | assume that you have no problem getting into it with a cd command, but I | can't! | | Mark | | Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: | | > Hi, | > | > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Hummel wrote: | > | > > By default, when I installed FBSD 4.0, I found a symlink called /sys. | > > The actual link, as I'm sure everyone knows, is /usr/src/sys. My | > > challenge is getting into the sys directory. Everytime I try (either | > > using the symlink or directly) I get the standard "directory does not | > > exist" error message. | > I never tried that, but don't you have to install the sources before you | > enter them? | > | > Uli. | > | > ======================================================================= | > | > www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | > | > ======================================================================= | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message