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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP pkg to allow custom kernel config?
Date: 30 Sep 1996 07:08:06 GMT
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"Greg Arsenault" <greg@beacondesign.com> wrote:

> I downloaded FreeBSD 2.1.5 via FTP and it seems to be running
> correctly.  I would like to obtain the correct package which would
> allow me to build a custom kernel on my machine.  I am having trouble
> finding the  *correct* package, can anyone point me in the right
> direction?

It's not exactly called `package'.  It's the files under `src' in the
base directory of the 2.1.5 release.  Pick the files ssys.aa thru
ssys.XY there, then:

	cd /usr/src
	cat /where/ever/they/live/ssys.* | tar -xvzf -

This gives you the entire /usr/src/sys tree.

-- 
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. ;-)