From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 14:51:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48A037B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E7643E6E for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 510041262352-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17joFJ-00053A-05; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:51:33 +0200 Received: from leto (510041262352-0001@[217.230.30.4]) by fwd09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17joFG-0RO10CC; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:51:30 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:51:03 +0200 (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: 510041262352-0001@t-online.de (Friedemann Becker) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kernel binaries... In-Reply-To: <20020827150924.GP780@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: zxmxy33@mailserv02.uni-tuebingen.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 510041262352-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-08-27 14:30 +0000, Friedemann Becker wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a precompiled -current kernel because i totally messed up > > > > my system and can't even compile a new one myself ;-) > > > > > > Does your /kernel.old work well enough to limp along and compile a > > > new kernel? > > > > my /kernel.old works, but the sources i checked out don't compile, i > > don't know, if they are broken or not. > > You'll probably have to FTP install over the network, one of the > snapshots from ftp://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/, boot into that, and > try to buildworld/buildkernel again. thanks, I got the network running (finally) and try to install via ftp now. I tried with release=5.0-CURRENT-20020818-JPSNAP and passive ftp to current.freebsd.org - with sysinstall. But sysinstall states that there is no such distribution on that server. What got I wrong, is the release name correct? Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message