Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:55:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Shawn Murphy <smurphy@atlanticuc.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handbook41.html Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960208235300.3442B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602080157.UAA06198@atlanticuc.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Shawn Murphy wrote: > However I cannot find these instructions. I did try looking the packages > menu in the /stand/sysinstall program, but found nothing about kernel > source... Could you tell me where I can find the source for the generic > kernel? I am trying to setup my sound blaster 16. Do it manually. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.* Download to /usr/src as root, cd /usr/src and type cat ssys.* | tar xzf - Your kernel source will appear and you may continue. > One other question... I was wondering if there was something wrong with > the X11R6 package that is available in the ports collection... It won't > let me add that package from sysinstall. The message is that pkg_extract > returns -1. X11 is too big to pkg_add. It has to be downloaded, and tar xzf'd manually. > Thanks for your timely reply. You had something sneaky as the last character in your msg, Pine spit something out and filtered it. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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