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Subject: ssys.* corrupted in BETA?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:16:26 -0500
From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
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I was just recently trying to tinker will adding some device drivers to my Unix
system, to play with them. Using the instructions from the handbook
(4.1.2 - Make room in conf.c), I noticed that I didn't have a conf.c
in the patch specified (/usr/src/sys/i386/i386). Thinking this weird,
and knowing I had been seriously tinkering with the system source anyways,
I went to reinstall from the 2.2-BETA CD I had burned from myself. I got all
the way though ssys.aq when it bombed, saying the compressed data was
invalid. 

So, thinking I had a bad copy, I downloaded ssys.* from ftp.freebsd.org,
in /pub/FreeBSD/2.2-BETA/src...

The same problem occured. Is it possible that the system source got
corrupted? Or am I just being stupid? Kernel compiles work fine,
but the handbook just doesn't seem to jove, and it claims to have
last been updated 1/4/97. Any help getting a good ssys distribution would
be helpful.
	-Brian