On 2002-10-23 18:10, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The very simplistic answer is: > > > > a. Download all the files from > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/src/ > > > > b. Run the install.sh script as root. > > Maybe they'd make a good src/README. I just took www.freebsd.org's > "Getting FreeBSD" link.
Perhaps. This is not a bad point altogether. I'm reading again some of the messages I have in my local mailbox. Apparently, a lot of people are thinking about src/README. In this particular case, it's probably a chicken and egg problem, since src/README cannot help one locate the sources, because it is part of the sources... But you're right at least in this; that there is a need for better documentation in "Getting FreeBSD". > The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP > from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/. > > Then you get to poke around a big directory tree until you blunder > across releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/src/. Our intrepid OP apparently > managed to get that far, but was probably too worn down to try looking > for and decyphering the install.sh script. I don't mind the occasional question. I'm glad that pointing him to the install.sh script did the trick, and now he probably has his sources downloaded with FTP. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
