Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-14 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:25:04 -0800 From: "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, this was very helpful. First of all I would just like to > admit that I only gave /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-14 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hallelujah! My "world" is rebuilt! Thanks to Chris, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", Kevin and Jim for educating me and pointing me in the right direction. Will definitely research further and continue to have a blast with FreeBSD on my test server. It very well

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:25:04 -0800 > From: "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks, this was very helpful. First of all I would just like to > > admit that I only gave /usr/src/UPDATING a quick glance. Shame on me;

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:12:45 -0800 > From: Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 7:01 PM >>> > > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > If you put KERNCONF in

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
Hallelujah! My "world" is rebuilt! Thanks to Chris, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", Kevin and Jim for educating me and pointing me in the right direction. Will definitely research further and continue to have a blast with FreeBSD on my test server. It very well could be that I will be using FreeBSD for my

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Andrews
> > > Also, UPDATING has "adjkerntz -i" just before "mergemaster -p". I=20 > > > looked at the man page for adjkerntz and am still uncertain if I = > need=20 > > > to do this. I run an ntpd client, if that makes any difference. > >=20 > > Again, just a precaution. Think "safe", or "event free". :)

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/13/08 1:25 PM >>> > > Surprisingly I grokked most of your cheatsheet and looked at a few > > man pages to figure out most of the rest. Haven't tried it all yet. I > > was wondering about the "mount -u /". Is it really necessary to mount > > the root partitio

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 4:34 PM >>> Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: First, let me note that step one in rebuilding world should be "cd /usr/src", not "make buildworld". I guess I was supposed to know that for some reason. Havi

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Jim Pingle
Gavin Spomer wrote: Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 7:01 PM >>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE If you put KERNCONF into make.conf, you can simplify it to: make kernel Just to be clear, if I add the appropriate KERNCONF line i

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 7:01 PM >>> > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > If you put KERNCONF into make.conf, you can simplify it to: > make kernel Just to be clear, if I add the appropriate KERNCONF line in /etc/ma

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
>>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 6:13 PM >>> >On 12/02/2008, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >. . . > > > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would also have to be > > > in /usr/src for the "make installworld" step. Bu

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Gavin Spomer
"Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 4:34 PM >>> >Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> First, let me note that step one in rebuilding world should be "cd >> /usr/src", not "make buildworld". I guess I was supposed to know that >> for some reason. Having said that, I figured I woul

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:34:57 -0800 > From: "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Please forgive me if this is not the appropriate list to post this > > on. If this is a topic for another, more appropriate FreeBSD list,

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread Chris H.
Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 12/02/2008, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: . . . > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would also have to be > in /usr/src for the "make installworld" step. But I couldn't do that! >

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/02/2008, Chris H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: . . . > > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would also have to be > > in /usr/src for the "make installworld" step. But I couldn't do that! > > Why? I could cd to /usr, but not /usr/src! . .

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Please forgive me if this is not the appropriate list to post this on. If this is a topic for another, more appropriate FreeBSD list, then would someone please kindly point this guy in the right direction? :) I'm on the security advisory list too and

Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-12 Thread Gavin Spomer
Please forgive me if this is not the appropriate list to post this on. If this is a topic for another, more appropriate FreeBSD list, then would someone please kindly point this guy in the right direction? :) I'm on the security advisory list too and got 2 emails about patches about a month ago