From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 02:38:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BE010656B9 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:38:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2789A8FC17 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so83944wib.13 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=PCRyISDblqZZoELE27AAxPjJNNmNJMB5YQuwlsplyfI=; b=tcirwbGaBhHqIa3GElJooSj5DiTZqmpyVUOak1+FVC1Waen9j6XFq317KPdLMrybIf holG5yRIJ5jjF+yiMSNyxdCYDmTTkVw7xhP0s5eHpHMnFAEPhosN/IE/n2WAKOysCdx8 KwRfeX4zqeCa0MjsexCMH/lqLt6ylSWdMOLq4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.135.15 with SMTP id t15mr9856313wei.3.1328668690071; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.21.193 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:38:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <4F2E8F17.3020502@mansionfamily.plus.com> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:38:10 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to build 9.0 from source? 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: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:38:11 -0000 On 5 February 2012 09:15, james wrote: > I installed 9.0 without sources. > > Now I'd like to try building the kernel (or specifically the mfi driver), so > I've tried to get the sources. > > The handbook says (in 9.55) to use sysinstall to get the source > configuration - but that doesn't seem to work and what its trying to fetch > seems more like an 8.x source set As a general rule, avoid sysinstall. And once you've successfully installed the system, definitely don't try to use sysinstall for anything. It does involve learning a thousand difference commands, but it's worth it. The most direct method is as outbackdingo@gmail.com said: edit up a supfile & run csup(1). You can also download the relevant src.txz from your favourite ftp server, & extract it (tar xpf etc etc). Or even go whole hog & pull it down via svn (this does take up about double the space, though). -- --