Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:13:57 -0400 From: "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <Richard.Mayo@us.army.mil> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software Message-ID: <D2AA47A6FB2C1A48AF0526440C0F245C0713AD9C@monm207.nae.ds.army.mil>
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Can you simply tell me the name of the tar ball on the CD? Rich Mayo SRI International x76435 > -----Original Message----- > From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:40 PM > To: Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software > > "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <Richard.Mayo@us.army.mil> > writes: > > > I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without > installing any source code. Now (naturally), I want to get a > hold of the kernel source so I can re-compile and enable > support for PIM and Multicast Routing. > > > > However, I can't figure how to get the source off my CDs. > I downloaded the ISO's for Disk 1 and Disk 2 of FreeBSD 6.1--RELEASE. > > Can anybody tell me where I can find the source code on > these disks so I don't have to run a re-installation just to get it?? > > You can run sysinstall without doing an install. > If you really want to extract the source directly with tar, it's been > explained on this list a number of times over the years. > > Or get more up-to-date sources by cvsup, as someone else suggested. > > Shall we go on? There are more possibilities, albeit less generally > useful. >
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