From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 10:29:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26815 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:29:15 -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 KAA26760 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01195; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:29:08 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:29:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mike Fish cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KERNEL SOURCE In-Reply-To: <199601121140.FAA00482@veruca-salt.gw.umn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Mike Fish wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE and am now interested in > compiling a new kernel. Well, I read the handbook and FAQs on this subject > and they say that I need the ``kerndist'' loaded onto my system. > > I have looked all over ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ in all of the > directories and have NOT been able to find any ``kern'' anything. So, > if someone could please direct my to the ``kerndist'' sources that would > be great. References to kerndist it pretty old IMHO :) -- you want the ssys.* archives in /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src. Download all of them, then do ``cat ssys.* | tar xzf -''. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major