Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:49:22 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where's the cvsupfile? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050914214612.07437a30@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <002f01c5b9ad$415e5870$0a00a8c0@rodan> References: <002f01c5b9ad$415e5870$0a00a8c0@rodan>
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At 09:23 PM 9/14/2005, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: >I've installed FreeBSD-6.0BETA4 and I'm having a bit of a time. I >can't get the usb drive to mount... anywhere. The floppy drive won't >mount when I type, > ># mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > >so I can't even transfer files to a floppy drive to help post the >error messages from the machine! I finally had to install an >additional NIC (the on-board sis965L chipset -- I've verified that >the device sis is in the GENERIC kernel config file, but that was >just taking a guess since the sis device is ) to try to cvsup to the >latest ports. There's no /etc/cvsupfile present. I would simply >create one by hand, but I don't know what values to put in there now >(RELEG_6 or BETA_6 or what). The machine is an asus vintage ae-1 >(I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the other problems >described below or not) and so far I haven't been successful in >doing any of the following: > >1) getting the on-board nic to light up >2) mounting a usb flash drive > >and now, > >3) running cvsup > >When I created a /etc/cvsupfile by hand: > >bobby# cat cvsupfile >*default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org >*default base=/usr >*default prefix=/usr >*default release=cvs >*default tag=RELENG_6 >*default delete use-rel-suffix >*default compress >src-src There is no "src-src". Did you mean src-sys? or src-all? The sample sup files are in /usr/share/examples/cvsup >ports-all >doc-all >bobby# > >my response was: > >bobby# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile >Parsing supfile "/etc/cvsupfile" >Parse error in "/etc/cvsupfile": Missing Field value > >And now I'm stuck... And frustrated.... > >Ideas? > >I went to 6.0BETA4 becuase of an initial problem with getting my >hard drive past the boot process (I think BSD was detecting the >incorrect disk geometry?) in 5.4 and I'm starting to wonder if I >sould focus on that version rather than spend more time with 6.0BETAX... > >Or when is the next beta release? > >Jeff. > >--- >Jeff D. Hamann >Forest Informatics, Inc. >PO Box 1421 >Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 >541-754-1428 >jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com >www.forestinformatics.com > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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