Great response! There's a lot of good info here. Thanks, and I will check out the SSH keepalive settings.
To update, I did finally solve my problem, although I was in a pickle there for a bit. Ironically, it's more intuitive to me to just do the install the old way (using make buildworld): I decided to attempt to install cvsup from my ports tree and thankfully it worked fine: cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup make install && make clean [Then, I just did:] tar -cyv /usr/home/myuser/7.2-RELEASE-src.tar.bz2 /usr/src/ rm -r /usr/src mkdir /usr/src rm -r /usr/obj cvsup my-supfile that gave me a fresh copy of the FreeBSD RELEASE-7.2 source tree (my-supfile had the correct release engine specified), and cleaned out any garbage that might have been in the /usr/obj directory [then:] mergemaster -pv env -i make buildworld nextboot -k GENERIC make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown -r now [log back in as su, then] mergemaster make installworld shutdown -r now [log back in as su, then] uname -a and get a nice listing that I'm running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 I'm guessing this method will work no matter what as long as you can install cvsup. Nice that I can do it over SSH too! Now to build a custom kernel! Thanks again, Joe On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net<mel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> > wrote: > On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:51:40 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 13 July 2009 13:40:31 Joseph Bashe wrote: > > > I am going thru my first FreeBSD upgrade and it's not going too > smoothly. > > > I originally started the upgrade using the "freebsd-update" method. > This > > > is what I've done so far (all as root user): > > > > There's a few misconceptions in your understanding of the upgrade > process, > > which I'll try to address below. However, you're also using the wrong > > sequence of events. You *first* want to update your kernel and base > system, > > only then your ports. > > > > > PS. I am using a custom kernel. > > > > As such, freebsd-update cannot upgrade your kernel. > > That should be ", without the intermediate use of a GENERIC kernel.". > > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Joe Bashe _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
