From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 15 15:26:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29470 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29369 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:25:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06920; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:55:32 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA23454; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:55:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980316095532.03333@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:55:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: raynoel@videotron.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel building References: <350C5669.152BEA8A@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <350C5669.152BEA8A@videotron.ca>; from Raymond Noel on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 05:30:01PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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