Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:09:55 -0700 From: Dave Hodge <dlhodge@ix.netcom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE of PAO: Help] Message-ID: <3400E973.24D2@ix.netcom.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3B25591F2C1C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need your assistance. Therefore, I'm asking if you could spare some of your attention to my problem. Please note that I did have the directory "/usr/src/sys" install at the time of the failure. Thanks in advance Dave Hodge dlhodge@ix.netcom.com --------------3B25591F2C1C Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <amcrae@cisco.com> Received: from ringer.cisco.com (ringer.cisco.com [171.69.176.7]) by ixmail5.ix.netcom.com (8.7.5/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id QAA29148; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (amcrae@localhost) by ringer.cisco.com (8.8.4-Cisco.1/8.6.5) id JAA11258 for dlhodge@ix.netcom.com; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:17:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew McRae <amcrae@cisco.com> Message-Id: <199708242317.JAA11258@ringer.cisco.com> Subject: Re: Trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE of PAO: Help To: dlhodge@ix.netcom.com Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:17:18 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <3400BE23.387F@ix.netcom.com> from "Dave Hodge" at Aug 24, 97 04:05:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >In one part of the instruction it ask that you "Apply kernel-patch to >kernel source tree." You are to do this by following the these >instructions: > ># cd /usr/src ># patch -p0 < PAO-970616/2.2.2-RELEASE/sys.patch > >The problem I am having is that patch start it returns a error message >involving something about a "diff" and then the patch program is >requesting the name of the file I am to patch to. Do you know what file >this program is looking for? I've tried feeding it the kernel which >resides off of the root directory: "/kernel". Unfortunately, all I get >for my efforts is an error message and an error file: "kernel.rej". I think you need to be in the /usr/src/sys directory. >Do you any thoughts around this problem. Do you know where I can get >some more definitive instructions? Are there any user groups of >individuals who could assist me understand the process more clearly? Try hackers@freebsd.org Cheers, Andrew McRae --------------3B25591F2C1C--
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