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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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