On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 04:15:32AM +0000, Anon Loli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 07:34:43PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> > On 2024/07/04 17:08:53 +0000, Anon Loli <anonloli@autistici.org> wrote:
> > > Hello mailing list
> > > Probably a stupid question, but I reinstalled OpenBSD like 10 times this week,
> > > and every time I went to compile the kernel like it says in the documentation,
> > > I could always cd into /sys/dev..., but this install it seems like /sys points
> > > to "usr/src/sys" (it's "usr", not "/usr").
> > >
> > > All I did on this install was download tar.gz files and extract them in /usr,
> > > including the /usr/sys folder, which was supposed to be in /sys pre-installed
> > > with the system, what's happening?
> > > Did I broke something again and need to install again? -_-
> > >
> > > I'm currently following documentation and doing everything in /usr/sys
> > > (extracted AND VERIFIED from tar.gz) as if it were /sys
> > >
> > > I'm sorry if this is a stupid question
> > >
> > > Partition table:
> > > /
> > > /home
> > > /tmp
> > > /usr
> > > /usr/X11R6
> > > /usr/local
> > > /usr/obj
> > > /usr/ports
> > > /usr/ports/pobj
> > > /usr/src
> > > /var
> > >
> > > All of them are <25% of capacity, it's a fresh install
> >
> > Don't think it's a stupid question, but also nothing to worry. AFAICS
> > /sys is always installed as a symlink to /usr/src/sys which works assuming
> > that you have the sources checked out in /usr/src (either via the
> > tarball, cvs, or got/git.)
> >
> > I guess it's just to save some typing, not really sure, but nothing to
> > worry about :)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Omar Polo
>
>
> Really? Phew! That's a relief!
> But I wonder why it was empty before I manually planted the /usr/sys via tar
> extraction... does cvs checkout of SRC also fetch the sys directory?? because
> it wasn't empty when I worked with cvs instead
>
> Thanks
>
You are confused.
The link in / is sys -> usr/src/sys
There is no such thing as a /usr/sys dir. You probably have extracted the
src or sys tarball in the wrong directory.
When you say: "I followed the instructions" it is always good to say
explicitly which instructions.
-Otto
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