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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installing source on existing system
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jeff Newton wrote:

> I'm new to FreeBSD so please excuse my ignorance about the following.
> 
> I've inherited a fully configured system but I have to rebuild the
> kernel.  Unfortunately there is no source on this machine.
> 
> What is the best way to go about installing ONLY source on an existing
> system.  I'm afraid sysinstall will mess up the existing setup and I
> can't find a package with just source.

Download or copy the ssys.* archives from the src/ directory.  

cd to /usr/src

run cat ssys.* | tar xzf -

That will extract the source.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major