No System sources?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:

>> How do I get the system sources downloaded in a usable form, so I can 
>> enable pps support in the kernel and use that.  Or, do I have to trash the 
>> system and start over(again?)
>
> You can easily use ftp to download the sources for -RELEASE
> from ftp.freebsd.org (select architecture and version according
> to what you have installed). It's a .txz compressed archive
> which you can extract into /usr/src.
>
> You could also install svn (Subversion) and use that to
> obtain the sources. This is what csup (CVS) has been used
> in the past.

Yet another choice: freebsd-update(8) can get sources.

And there's probably no need to FTP the sources; 
if they're on the CD it no big deal to extract them 
from there by hand (no need for the install program).