On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:59:30 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> Since it has booted fine, you can also obtain the source from the SVN
> tree[1], assuming you can get devel/subversion to build on such an old
> version.
It's no problem to install cvsup-without-gui from ports or use
the csup utility (I thi
Brett Wiggins wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>> Depending on what you want to do with "accessing the source code",
>> it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
>> far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
>> source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel).
>>
>
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:52:22 +1000, Brett Wiggins
wrote:
> I want to be able to read and compile the source. I have looked at
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/
For this purpose, I think you'll need the contrib/ subtree.
> but am unable to find an iso and a
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Brett Wiggins wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>
>> Depending on what you want to do with "accessing the source code",
>> it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
>> far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
>> source code (make vuildwor
Hi,
>
> Depending on what you want to do with "accessing the source code",
> it may be valid to say that you can leave out scontrib, but as
> far as I remember, it will be needed for building things from the
> source code (make vuildworld and buildkernel).
I want to be able to read and compile t
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:47:15 +1000, Brett Wiggins
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am installing an old version of FreeBSD (5.2) that I am using with the
> book 'The design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System -
> McKusick/Neville-Neil'. During the install there is an error saying that
> scontri
