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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <52nrkm$baa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <AE745B75-E8952@204.167.102.223> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "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. ;-)