Fwd: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

Curtis Vaughan curtis at npc-usa.com
Wed Nov 17 16:42:22 PST 2004



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Adam Smith <adam at internode.com.au>
> Date: 17 November, 2004 16:10:29 PST
> To: Curtis Vaughan <curtis at npc-usa.com>
> Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:50:03PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said:
>> Thanks!
>>
>> You say, go to /usr/src and enter the command make update. But there 
>> is
>> nothing in my /usr/src directory. So, either I've done something wrong
>> at some point, or I need to issue the command from a different
>> directory.
>
> You didn't install the FreeBSD source code when you first installed 
> your
> system.  But I'm not sure how you install it once the system has been
> installed :(
>
> Maybe check it out on the FreeBSD site...  You may just be able to 
> download
> it as a tgz file an then extract it.  Then run make update.
>
Can anyone help me with this? Where do I go to get the source code to 
put in /usr/src ?

Curtis



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