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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help installing src from cd Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:51:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4f4ng7$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4eeejn$g3a@nw002.infi.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> writes: > The subject says it all. I installed all the binaries and packages > that I wanted. I would like to install the src so that I could > recompile my kernel etc, but am not sure how to get that done; can > anyone help with that? TIA, Tom cd /usr/src cat /cdrom/dists/src/sfoo.* | tar -xvzf - with `foo' being the name of the source dist you want. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)