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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:47:13 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: where is the kernel?
Message-ID:  <19990312104713.L490@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990311005620.RIMA2097.fep01-svc@harlock>; from Paolo Di Francesco on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 01:05:57AM -0000
References:  <19990311005620.RIMA2097.fep01-svc@harlock>

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On Thursday, 11 March 1999 at  1:05:57 -0000, Paolo Di Francesco wrote:
> I want to install/play/compile the last version of the kernel. I want to
> download the 4.0 version (snapshot) but I don't find it.
> I don't want to use CVS, only to download the kernel packages, unpack
> them and putting them somewhere, then compile them.

This isn't really an in-depth technical discussion, so I'm following
up to -questions.

On the CD-ROM, they're in the files src/ssys.a*.  You'll find them on
the ftp site in a similar place.

> Can I use an arbitrary directory to compile the kernel?

No.  Use /usr/src/sys.  You should have a symlink /sys ->
/usr/src/sys; some software may depend on it, but I haven't checked.

Greg
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