Thanks and Possible Erratum

yard-ape at telus.net yard-ape at telus.net
Mon Jul 24 18:35:25 UTC 2006


yard-ape at telus.net wrote:

> Thanks for the tremendous documentation of the FreeBSD Handbook!  I'm new to FreeBSD (from Linux and Plan9), and I consider this "total operating system" documentation of yours a huge benefit.
>
> A possible error under section 8.3 "Building and Installing a Custom Kernel": in the instructions on installing the source form the command line, it says:
>
> ...
> # ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys
> # cat /cdrom/src/ssys.[a-d]* | tar -xzvf -
>
> Next, move to the arch/conf directory...
>
> ...
>
> Isn't there a "cd /" missing between the "ln" and the "cat" commands?
>
> -Derek Thomas

... Also, on my cdrom, the 'src' is a subdirectory of '6.1-RELEASE' (which took me a bit of flailing to figure out).

-Thanks again.

Derek Thomas



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