From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 07:57:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA06782 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 07:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA06764 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 07:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa17995; 21 Jul 96 15:57 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa28214; 21 Jul 96 15:24 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA00891; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:08:33 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199607211308.NAA00891@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: quick upgrade question To: Thor Clark Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:08:33 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Thor Clark" at Jul 20, 96 08:58:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Great upgrade sequence - I just went from 2.1.0 to 2.1.5 with ~40 minutes > downtime, including manual reconfig. Really impressive. Thank you! > one small question - I had /usr/src symolically linked to another disk, > so I didn't get the kernel source that I wanted (I forget the exact error > - if /usr/src isn't a directory, there's nowhere to put everything). > > I think I need every ssys.* file - are there any others I should grab? > (I just want to customize the kernel) Yes, you need every ssys.* file. No, you don't need any others, unless you want source for things like system applications as well. > How should I combine and unpack them once I've got them? > (or is there a simpler way of doing this, with sysinstall...) # cat ssys.* | tar tzvf - # cat ssys.* | tar xzvf - (The first one will show you what will happen when you extract them. The second will actually do it, once you are satisfied the right files will end up in the right place!)