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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help installing src from cd
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:51:51 GMT
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misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> writes:

> The subject says it all.  I installed all the binaries and packages
> that I wanted.  I would like to install the src so that I could
> recompile my kernel etc, but am not sure how to get that done; can
> anyone help with that?  TIA, Tom

cd /usr/src
cat /cdrom/dists/src/sfoo.* | tar -xvzf -

with `foo' being the name of the source dist you want.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)