From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 26 11:34:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19714 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19613 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04536; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:33:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199808261833.OAA04536@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Get source code? In-Reply-To: <35E428D6.E5F19D50@ufsltd.com> from Derek Wong at "Aug 26, 98 11:25:11 am" To: derekwong@ufsltd.com (Derek Wong) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:33:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Derek Wong wrote: > Hi, > I want to study the FreeBSD source code without installing it. Is there > anyway just getting > the source code without running the installation? > Thank you in advance! > Derek > Sure. ftp to ftp.freebsd.org. then cd to /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/src Download all the files there. These are of the form xxx.aa, xxx.ab, xxx.ac.... yyy.aa,.... They can be cat'ted together to make a series of tar.gz files. On Unix, cat sys.[a-z][a-z] >sys.tar.gz gives the kernel sources. I have no idea how to do this on a system without unix tools, but it's just a simple concatenation in order. These are all on the CDROM set, too. Dave -- Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message