On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg <jalmb...@identry.com> wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory > is empty. "Absolute FreeBSD" glibly says to "grab the source tarball > from a FreeBSD mirror". > [...] > But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it > is on the mirror.
Choose a local mirror. Then, for example, go into the directory ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/ and see the source files. Download all of them and install them through install.sh. This will populate /usr/src with these sources. > Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > > And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Once you have the sources installed properly (even without updating them to the lastest 7.1-RELEASE-p or 7.1-STABLE) this should be possible. > I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting > a CD in the machine, since I"m 2 hours away from the machine. Then the way mentioned above will be no problem. You can use the CLI ftp to automate it. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
