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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: atapi info, please post. Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:04:48 -0500 (EST) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951211150324.16308D-100000@blizzard.cs.odu.edu> References: <496t9n$bhm@news.csus.edu> <49k9km$gk@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <49vpc3$mds@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> <4a6148$aua@news.azstarnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blizzard.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4a6148$aua@news.azstarnet.com> On 7 Dec 1995, Tim Smith wrote: > Gregoire Leclair (leclairg@alterator.Umontreal.CA) wrote: > : Is it possible to get the kernel source without getting all the FreeeBSD > : sources? > : > > ftp to a FreeBSD mirror site, and get the sys.a? files from the src/ dir- > ectory. Then: > > $ cd /usr/src > $ cat $FTP_DIR/sys.?? | gzip -c -d | tar xvf - The even easier way is to get the source files, and the install.sh script (in the source dir)...it will install selected source. Jamie I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.