From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 16:44:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12606 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12582 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:44:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA02940; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:46:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:46:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: benedict@echonyc.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: massive kernel-config problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Levels of Indirection wrote: > So naturally I tried making it user-executable (all this as root of > course) but it didn't work. I got a bunch of other errors that I'm not > going to bother to transcribe because I assume the best solution to this > is to reinstall the relevant files. So my question is bipartite: > > 1) Which files do I need to replace? I have a pretty good connection to > the net so err on the side of broadness here. 0. Save your kernel config file somewhere safe 1. rm -rf /usr/src/sys 2. ftp src/ssys.* from ftp.freebsd.org from the appropriate release directory 3. tar xzf ssys.* 4. Copy back your kernel config and try again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major