From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 20:10:52 2009 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 07F431065670 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9362D8FC0A for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 59257 invoked by uid 89); 15 Apr 2009 20:11:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 15 Apr 2009 20:11:26 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <946084FF-AA8E-4DF0-B89F-4CA02E5E572D@identry.com> From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: where to grab source tarball? 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, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:52 -0000 I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror". I found a list of mirrors here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it is on the mirror. Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: cd /usr/src make buildworld And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since I"m 2 hours away from the machine. Thanks: John