From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 23:39:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF96E16A41F for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:39:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: from mail.outstep.com (www.outstep.com [205.177.73.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E63B43D45 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:39:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: (qmail 14374 invoked by uid 509); 31 Oct 2005 15:39:40 -0800 Received: from 70.120.87.170 by GeneralC.outstep.com (envelope-from , uid 507) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.83/1150. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(70.120.87.170):SA:0(-2.2/1.0):. Processed in 0.906631 secs); 31 Oct 2005 23:39:40 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=1.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: lonnie@outstep.com via GeneralC.outstep.com X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(70.120.87.170):SA:0(-2.2/1.0):. Processed in 0.906631 secs Process 14365) Received: from cpe-70-120-87-170.satx.res.rr.com (HELO ?192.168.0.114?) (lonnie@outstep.com@70.120.87.170) by mail.outstep.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2005 15:39:39 -0800 Message-ID: <4366AB39.9060105@outstep.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:39:37 -0600 From: Lonnie Cumberland User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Slade References: <43668E08.7060208@outstep.com> <1130796947.11904.4.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1130796947.11904.4.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Compile Kernel Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:39:52 -0000 Greetings All, Actually I did read over that information in the handbook but it only seems to go into detail on mounting a CDROM and then installing the sources. It does not tell me how, or where to download the sources over the net or if there is some pkg way to get the sources. That is why I have sent these messages to the forum for additional help. Thanks, Lonnie Robert Slade wrote: >On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:35, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > >>Greetings All, >> >>I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that >>the migration should not be too difficult. >> >>The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it >>performs GREAT under heavy loads and many larger ISP are using it >>without fail. In my experience, Linux, although a great OS, seems to bog >>down under heavy loading. I could be wrong though and it could have just >>been to misconfiguration on my part. >> >>Well, I have a base installation of FreeBSD 4.11 which is needed for a >>particular project but now need to compile the kernel to support QUOTA's. >> >>My question is how do I install the sources over the web so that I can >>compile the kernel to support quotas? >> >>The FreeBSD docs tell a little, but mostly assume that you have the >>sources already on the system to compile which I do not have and need to >>download them. >> >>If some one could please give me a little guidance then I would greatly >>appreciate it. >> >>Thanks in advance, >>Lonnie >> >> >Lonnie, > >It's is the handbook see > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > >It tell you how to install the source at the beginning. > >Rob > > >