Hi,
I am installing an old version of FreeBSD (5.2) that I am using with the
book 'The design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System -
McKusick/Neville-Neil'. During the install there is an error saying that
scontrib was unable to be retrieved from the install CD. Will this
effect
saying that
scontrib was unable to be retrieved from the install CD. Will this
effect the system from running? the only thing I want from this install
is access to the 5.2 source code. Please cc me if you reply to this
question as I am not subscribed to this list.
The contrib/ subtree contains
Hi,
Depending on what you want to do with accessing the source code,
it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel).
I want to be able to read and compile
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Brett Wigginss0x...@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi,
Depending on what you want to do with accessing the source code,
it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
source code (make
to find an iso and am not sure how to make a iso or
install cd from what is provided.
There's the command make distribution in /usr/src.
I have installed the system minus
scontrib and it boots ok.
Of course, it's only the sources (scontrib is part of the sources).
Those are not needed
Brett Wiggins wrote:
Hi,
Depending on what you want to do with accessing the source code,
it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel).
I want
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:59:30 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
Since it has booted fine, you can also obtain the source from the SVN
tree[1], assuming you can get devel/subversion to build on such an old
version.
It's no problem to install cvsup-without-gui from ports or use
