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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:55:32 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        raynoel@videotron.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel building
Message-ID:  <19980316095532.03333@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <350C5669.152BEA8A@videotron.ca>; from Raymond Noel on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 05:30:01PM -0500
References:  <350C5669.152BEA8A@videotron.ca>

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On Sun, 15 March 1998 at 17:30:01 -0500, Raymond Noel wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD on my computer. I want to build a custom
> kernel. I see the documentation in the book, about 1700 pages, p. 242 on
> rebuilding the kernel. I have the 4-CD set, version 2.2.5 from Walnut
> Creek. I have searched on the CDRoms for the directory /dists/src/ that
> is supposed to contain a lot of sys files and configurations. But the
> directory can not be found on the CD, any one of them. In other words, I
> simply don't have the sources to rebuild a kernel on those CDs. How can
> that be?

Simple: it's a bug in the book.  In the first edition, the information
was correct, but since then the sources were moved, and they're now in
/src (on the first CD-ROM).  Thank you for drawing this problem to my
attention.

Greg

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