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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.inc.net!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with source code. Date: 5 Aug 1996 19:46:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4u5j2v$62f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4AUG199620310535@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E hu_z@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (University of Houston-Downtown) wrote: > Hey, anyone know how I can install the source code after I've installed the > minimum install (bin.* ) files? I don't know what to do with the sbin.*, > subin.*, and susbin.* files. Also are there other files that I will need to > install the kernel source? These files are split .tar.gz files. Un-split (i.e., `cat') them, and pipe them to tar: cd /usr/src cat /cdrom/dists/src/ssys.* | tar -xvzf - For the kernel source tree, you need just the ssys.* files only. The other groups contain other parts of the source tree, unless you're looking for the source of a particular program, you will certainly only want to extract all of them or nothing. The only exception to this rule is the ssmailcf.* file, which contains the configuration file sources for sendmail, something that can come very handy if you need to create a new sendmail configuration. Don't forget that the second CDROM contains a fully extracted tree, in case you want some particular source code just for reference only! -- 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. ;-)