From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 19 07:59:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AE2106566B for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f208.google.com (mail-bw0-f208.google.com [209.85.218.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBFC8FC16 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so1278901bwz.43 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:59:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zfHAB8LxdnMpn3WIhqeyqMzyah7g9MtvF+PbPw8UuPY=; b=PD7bHaGF49epLQlcMFEtBzUkbmfk8/3qQuV3ROXqVvZ5g32dqXX3fBiZttLXsS8twL akUc1slGxrnSw22uKGlZELkE4GoY7xKY9zmXECqSZHDYHsY0JVpJ4turrv9rcImJDuuU EeJp0KZjJhsCkDivDOcHRJoB63XjJdI0gqLP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wVj1JRFLEI/a5lQmsBCpEpN/nhCYozKLlvmvGWUVrzdysYVMmV1/PVdc8V/8MfO3Or RVczltCHv/xuqNJLylZoovM0qkLaMvaQQDWrd26wO3C26OMPY60UUzlPPbxLwUZ+e6GI IUa3RjQQo2Wr9bkQGRcVShOwAOEZWMdZYR92g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.116.205 with SMTP id n13mr854880faq.103.1247990370597; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:59:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1247989942.6481.5.camel@synack-laptop> References: <1247986035.5271.5.camel@synack-laptop> <20090719090619.643dc1a5.freebsd@edvax.de> <1247989942.6481.5.camel@synack-laptop> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:59:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310907190059n63357704lcaa48fa8d3088eea@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Brett Wiggins Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scontrib X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:59:32 -0000 On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Brett Wiggins wrote: > Hi, > >> >> Depending on what you want to do with "accessing the source code", >> it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as >> far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the >> source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel). > > I want to be able to read and compile the source. I have looked at > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ > > but am unable to find an iso and am not sure how to make a iso or > install cd from what is provided. I have installed the system minus > scontrib and it boots ok. Would I be able to get the full source from > the ftp-archive, exctract it to my FreeBSD system and then re-build and > install the system? > Since it has booted fine, you can also obtain the source from the SVN tree[1], assuming you can get devel/subversion to build on such an old version. [1] - http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/5.2.0/ -- Glen Barber