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
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