From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 17: 9:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC74737B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.31.81.146]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20001011001143.QOKB382.smtp2a@ispchannel.com>; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:11:43 -0700 Message-ID: <39E3AF9A.CB24A2EC@ispchannel.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:08:58 -0500 From: Mark Hummel Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: FSD Subject: Re: Why can't I get into the /sys directory ?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, that's what I meant; the symlink is in /. When I had FBSD 4.0 installed, I could easily get into the /sys directory. Why can't I get into it now? Besides, where is the default kernel file GENERIC located? Isn't it somewhere below the /sys directory? Mark Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Mark, > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Hummel wrote: > > > Uli, > > > > I don't understand what you mean "...installing the sources, before I enter > > them." Take a look at your / directory. In it, you will find a > > subdirectory called sys. If you long list (ll) the root directory (/), > > you'll see that sys is actually a symbolic link to /usr/src/sys. I also > > assume that you have no problem getting into it with a cd command, but I > > can't! > No, I cannot get into this directory, because it is not there! I only have > the symlink in / ! > As far as I know, one normally installs the FreeBSD-distributions as > binaries. But in /stand/sysinstall there is the option to install the > sources too. > > > > > Mark > > > > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Hummel wrote: > > > > > > > By default, when I installed FBSD 4.0, I found a symlink called /sys. > > > > The actual link, as I'm sure everyone knows, is /usr/src/sys. My > > > > challenge is getting into the sys directory. Everytime I try (either > > > > using the symlink or directly) I get the standard "directory does not > > > > exist" error message. > > > I never tried that, but don't you have to install the sources before you > > > enter them? > > Uli. > > ======================================================================= > > www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de > > ======================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message