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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:41:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jonathan Andrew McEllroy <mcellroy@math.psu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get kernel source code when the handbook doesn't say?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960124103817.4888H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31055BBF.41C67EA6@math.psu.edu>

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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Jonathan Andrew McEllroy wrote:

> In your handbook it stated that to retrieve the kernel source code
> I was told to go the the "installing packages" part of the handbook.
> This page had no information in it except a title. I need either a
> procedure or a place to get a procedure on how to step by step download
> the kernel source code.

1.  cd /usr/src
2.  su
3.  ftp ftp.freebsd.org
4.  cd /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src
5.  mget ssys.* (do a prompt before for an unattended d/l)
6.  bye
7.  cat ssys.* | tar zxf -
8.  Sources are in "sys" 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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