From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 5:31: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAAEB37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx02.uni-tuebingen.de (mx02.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.3.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DF643E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 05:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friedemann.becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.18.17]) by mx02.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7RCUvQt001677 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:30:57 +0200 Received: from localhost (zxmxy33@localhost) by linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (8.10.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id g7RCUuB24916 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:30:56 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de: zxmxy33 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:30:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Friedemann Becker X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: kernel binaries... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a precompiled -current kernel because i totally messed up > > my system and can't even compile a new one myself ;-) > > > > That's why we have backups ;) > > Does your /kernel.old work well enough to limp along and compile a new > kernel? my /kernel.old works, but the sources i checked out don't compile, i don't know, if they are broken or not. i have another freebsd machine standing around here, but there cvsup can't connect to the ftp-servers, but ftp "by hand" is no problem. so if i could get the sources on that box, i could compile a kernel for myself. and..... why can't i install the ssys.##-files i 'wget'ed with sysinstall's "install from file system" option, if the directory they're in doesn't contain any sbin.##-files? sysinstall doesn't like that. Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message