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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!wang!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: kernel sources Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:16:18 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3rkkli$rtk@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <3rk1hm$t3l@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Anthony Hill (ahill@tulpi.interconnect.com.au) had the courage to say: : I need to recompile the kernel of my new 2.0.5 installation, however, when I originally installed, i did not include the kernel sources. (stupid I know !) : Anyway how do I install them now - I have FTP'd the src directory from FTP.CDROM.COM, but there is no extract script ! I have has a look at sysinstall - but it seems that it is going to go for a full reinstall - destroying everything I already have. : Thanks - Anthony Hill : -- : Anthony Hill : ahill@connect.com.au People, people, people! There's nothing magic about the distribution archives! They're just gzipped tar files split up into chunks. All you need to do to extract them is this: % cat ssys.* | gzip -d | tar -xvf - It happens that the ssys.?? files contain the kernel sources. The source tree is rooted in /usr/src, so you could just do this: # cd /usr/src # cat ssys.* | gzip -d | tar -xvf - and everything will be unpacked into /usr/src/sys for you. (Note that there are other command combinations you can use to uncompress and untar the distributions, but I do it this way out of habit. To each his own.) In some cases it's a good idea to use 'tar -tvf -' just to see what files are in the archive so that you can get an idea of where there supposed to go. (Sometimes it isn't obvious.) If this isn't in the FAQ and/or the install README, it should be. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~