From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 4:30:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCD937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 04:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E930143E4A for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 04:30:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 10073 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 11:23:00 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-95.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (root@150.140.128.159) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 11:23:00 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OBUKxw020167 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:30:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9OBJtS1019516; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:19:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:19:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where are the 4.7 release sources? Message-ID: <20021024111955.GB10903@hades.hell.gr> References: <20021023184750.GT21254@sproul.rain3s.net> <20021023190111.42598.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> <20021023231305.GA2630@hades.hell.gr> <9kof9ky74l.f9k@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9kof9ky74l.f9k@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-23 18:10, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > The very simplistic answer is: > > > > a. Download all the files from > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/src/ > > > > b. Run the install.sh script as root. > > Maybe they'd make a good src/README. I just took www.freebsd.org's > "Getting FreeBSD" link. Perhaps. This is not a bad point altogether. I'm reading again some of the messages I have in my local mailbox. Apparently, a lot of people are thinking about src/README. In this particular case, it's probably a chicken and egg problem, since src/README cannot help one locate the sources, because it is part of the sources... But you're right at least in this; that there is a need for better documentation in "Getting FreeBSD". > The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP > from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/. > > Then you get to poke around a big directory tree until you blunder > across releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/src/. Our intrepid OP apparently > managed to get that far, but was probably too worn down to try looking > for and decyphering the install.sh script. I don't mind the occasional question. I'm glad that pointing him to the install.sh script did the trick, and now he probably has his sources downloaded with FTP. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message