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From: kenneth.furge@ehusa.[NO_SPAM]com (Kenneth Furge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NEWBIE Q: Where do i get the source for the kernel?
Date: 10 Jun 1997 13:12:01 GMT
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In article <01bc7593$7c858a20$0f02000a@chris-s-pc>, mong@fuq.yew.com says...
>
>HI, im trying to setup pppd but it says that my kernel doesnt support it
>and needs to be custom built but i cant find the kerndist (as read from
>FAQ) in the ftp.freebsd.org directories?
>
>Where do i get it from?
>
>Thanks
>

From ftp.cdrom.com, grab it from /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/src/ssys*.  Make 
sure that your have a /usr/src/sys directory and that /sys is symlinked to 
/usr/src/sys.  Then, go to the root directory and:

cd /; cat /YOUR_DRIECTORY/ssys.a[a-q] | tar xvzf -

Go into /sys/i386/conf and try to make the GENERIC kernel first.  Do this by:

config GENERIC
cd ../../compile/GENERIC
make depend all

If that works, use GENERIC as a template for your custom kernel and repeat the 
previous steps:

cd /sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
vi MYKERNEL
config MYKERNEL
cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
make depend all install

That's it!

- K.C. Furge