From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 10:43:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA11304 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11266 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05044; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:41:13 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:41:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jonathan Andrew McEllroy cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get kernel source code when the handbook doesn't say? In-Reply-To: <31055BBF.41C67EA6@math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Jonathan Andrew McEllroy wrote: > In your handbook it stated that to retrieve the kernel source code > I was told to go the the "installing packages" part of the handbook. > This page had no information in it except a title. I need either a > procedure or a place to get a procedure on how to step by step download > the kernel source code. 1. cd /usr/src 2. su 3. ftp ftp.freebsd.org 4. cd /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src 5. mget ssys.* (do a prompt before for an unattended d/l) 6. bye 7. cat ssys.* | tar zxf - 8. Sources are in "sys" Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major