Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:39:42 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <Richard.Mayo@us.army.mil> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting Source Code after Installing the Software Message-ID: <44mzccygvl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <D2AA47A6FB2C1A48AF0526440C0F245C0713AD9B@monm207.nae.ds.army.mil> (Richard A. RDECOM CERDEC STCD Mayo's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:27:31 -0400") References: <D2AA47A6FB2C1A48AF0526440C0F245C0713AD9B@monm207.nae.ds.army.mil>
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"Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <Richard.Mayo@us.army.mil> writes: > I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without installing any source code. Now (naturally), I want to get a hold of the kernel source so I can re-compile and enable support for PIM and Multicast Routing. > > However, I can't figure how to get the source off my CDs. I downloaded the ISO's for Disk 1 and Disk 2 of FreeBSD 6.1--RELEASE. > Can anybody tell me where I can find the source code on these disks so I don't have to run a re-installation just to get it?? You can run sysinstall without doing an install. If you really want to extract the source directly with tar, it's been explained on this list a number of times over the years. Or get more up-to-date sources by cvsup, as someone else suggested. Shall we go on? There are more possibilities, albeit less generally useful.
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