How to install src in FreeBSD 10.0?

[Bront_in_Hood]

Hello!
Yahoo! I'm a happy owner of fresh FreeBSD 10.0 installation!
But I can not find 'sysinstall' command. Seems like FreeBSD does no longer hold this command.
But... Sysinstall was my favourite tool for some post install configurations. For instance I need to add kernel sources to /usr/src folder.
Actually I'm a bit confused. I don't want to get into touch with svn.

Is there any simple and handy tool to add kernel sources and other post install configurations instead of sysinstall?

 

[Beastie]

Sysinstall and related tools have been deprecated a long time ago and have been removed from base in FreeBSD 10.

If you don't want to use SVN and are happy with the -RELEASE sources (i.e. no security fixes), then either extract the source from your install media (CD/DVD/USB pendrive) or get it online (replace $ARCH with your architecture of choice, e.g. i386).

To actually extract the archive simply use tar -C / -xvf src.txz

 

[Bront_in_Hood]

or get it online (replace $ARCH with your architecture of choice, e.g. i386).

This way is handy for me. Because I have no standard FreeBSD distribution media. I have mfsbsd (http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/) distribution.
Thank you!

 

[Bront_in_Hood]

Sysinstall and related tools have been deprecated a long time ago

If you deprecate something you should refer to modern equivalent. Is there any modern equivalent to sysinstall?

 

[wblock@]

The modern equivalent is checking out the source directly with Subversion. See http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172.

 

[Bront_in_Hood]

The modern equivalent is checking out the source directly with Subversion. See http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172.

I mean not only sources.. sysinstall was able to configure timezones and lots of other things...

 

[wblock@]

Devin Teske has been working hard on bsdconfig(8), a companion program for bsdinstall(8) that implements a lot of the missing functionality of sysinstall(8).

 

[scottro]

For that one specific item, one can run tzsetup at any time. I suspect that this is true for many other parts of sysinstall.

 

[SirDice]

sysinstall(8) was more likely to destroy your installation that actually configure it. It was never a good idea to do any kind of configuration with it.