From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 23:57:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA06044 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:57:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06038 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03539; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:55:18 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:55:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Shawn Murphy cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handbook41.html In-Reply-To: <199602080157.UAA06198@atlanticuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Shawn Murphy wrote: > However I cannot find these instructions. I did try looking the packages > menu in the /stand/sysinstall program, but found nothing about kernel > source... Could you tell me where I can find the source for the generic > kernel? I am trying to setup my sound blaster 16. Do it manually. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.* Download to /usr/src as root, cd /usr/src and type cat ssys.* | tar xzf - Your kernel source will appear and you may continue. > One other question... I was wondering if there was something wrong with > the X11R6 package that is available in the ports collection... It won't > let me add that package from sysinstall. The message is that pkg_extract > returns -1. X11 is too big to pkg_add. It has to be downloaded, and tar xzf'd manually. > Thanks for your timely reply. You had something sneaky as the last character in your msg, Pine spit something out and filtered it. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major