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From: "Stephane Raimbault" <bsw827@freenet.mb.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel Source files
Date: 11 Jan 1997 01:39:52 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
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I am attempting to use sysinstall but I must download the compressed files
because I have to do a DOS Partition installation.  All I want to know is
which files contain the source code for the kernel...

Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote in article
<87g20911rx.fsf@localhost.neosoft.com>...
> "Stephane Raimbault" <bsw827@freenet.mb.ca> writes:
> 
> > 
> > I am wanting to install FreeBSD as kern-developer.  What src files do I
> > need to get.  I don't think I need to download them all do I?  Which
*.aa,
> > *.ab , etc... files do I need for the kernel source.
> 
> You'd save yourself a lot of trouble by following the recommended install
> procedure (using sysinstall), rather than unpacking the files yourself.
> This way, it's quite easy to select the proper distributions for your
needs.
> 
> -- 
> Conrad Sabatier                  | 
> conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
> http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads  | 
> 
>