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#! rnews 1711 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wco.com!news From: "Jeffery T. White" <zellion@cyberwind.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install the source distribution, I've downloaded from and FTP site? Date: 13 Sep 1996 02:04:41 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 25 Message-ID: <01bba114$7d9d4fa0$df6d04c7@zellion.cyberwind.com> References: <323707F3.1DF1@moon.flanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zellion.cyberwind.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 > How do I install my newly downloaded .src distribution, which I have > stored on an MS-DOS partition? pkg_install seems to require a tarred > and zipped file, however the distribution is not compressed. > Well I'm surely no expert but it sounds like your saying you have the whole works on a DOS partition all unpacked, in other words in a big tree of directories? I have never gotten it this way but for what it is worth when it is unpacked it goes in /usr/src/sys/*rest*/. Where *rest* is a mess of subdirectories and files. If you don't have the source your directory usually ends at /usr/src. So if you have the sys/*rest*/ part on your DOS partition try moving it to /usr/src/sys/*rest*/. And don't ask me how to access the DOS partition, I have no DOS or clue<g>. I really don't know if there are any files that go outside of that tree. -- | Jeffery T. White | email: zellion@cyberwind.com | | Cyberwind, The wind knows... | http://www.cyberwind.com