From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 12:41:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26778 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26762 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA21659; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:40:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gary Hall cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing Kernel Source In-Reply-To: <35D16AEB.EB96C0A@mcg-graphics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Gary Hall wrote: > We are trying to reconfigure our kernel, unfortunately the source is not > installed. So, following the instructions in the complete FreeBSD > manual, we did the following: > > mkdir -p /usr/src/sys > ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys > cd / > cat /cdrom/dists/src/sys.* | tar xzvf - > > When we type in the last command we get the error message: > > cat: /cdrom/dists/src/sys.*: no such file > > When we look on any of the four supplied CDROMS we can find no /dists > directory. > We are running 2.2.6 and they are the CD's we installed from. > > Can anyone give us the correct path or give us the correct information > to get our kernel changed ? Assuming your CD is mounted on /cdrom, do: cd /cdrom/src ./install ssys Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message