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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        "Shen, Qifeng" <Qifeng.Shen@sycamorenet.com>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: source code for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010162131450.2680-100000@opal>
In-Reply-To: <5B38C8A7BD6AD311A1BC009027B6C224014648B2@pine.sycamorenet.com>

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Shen, Qifeng wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a CD that came with "FreeBSD Handbook" edited by Jim Mock.
> The reason I got the book and the CD is to look into the source code.
> I'd like to know if is possible to get the source code out of the CD in a
> readable format without actually installed BSD on my PC (Windows NT).
> If it is, would you let me know how. Of course, if you have a web/ftp site
> that I get source code from, it may even be better.

Mount your CD-ROM on a Unix machine (Sun, Linux, or FreeBSD) and then do:

# cd <cdrom>/src
# sh install.sh  DESTDIR=<destdir>

Replace <cdrom> and <destdir> with real directory names.  If it does not
work, try modify install.sh a little bit.

-Zhihui



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