From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 8 14:34:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79BB1065674 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:34:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110F88FC08 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so1344504bwz.43 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:34:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=c3MdRGFliN/+OFw6zcGIufETi0/iUYgW1HQc2Me27Es=; b=XkGMPguY7P7v0tYhLg1gYrfEbKFz0dowkMY57oeAHUo3wMp5PD11dQ7qOVE/SV7NgB Kg1UXzw8rgs96Bsn08h9/yB8BYR1nTn4XfwPcEPhrDDR5Q1CmHcmBz1PwUrHOTXRKPPo 07UCE1HqZumCcxHMD4i+jMnfQyBMtApRcyrZw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f1yL+Rmx3xSU5EPKjMacYXuzaFFTmIhXeRmWtawUVf/rVW8dijz99Ldzsm68CaqXH9 DbNpRCfyoe5tDfOW5tgGRYE5/H6OoTQkgNrC0sc4ARcSEg0COca0Pmue64TPS2FJO1zR U3T52p6aPkTeAxaG5/apEGQPlS/IvcQsgttN8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.126.10 with SMTP id a10mr543351fas.17.1249742055002; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:34:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <129263.24894.qm@web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <4ad871310908080720k1b4e9f71xa8705ace2abd9e7c@mail.gmail.com> <129263.24894.qm@web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:34:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310908080734j1a1da1b9qa1100b01398a42f9@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:34:19 -0000 On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Richard Mahlerwein wro= te: >> > I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a >> GENERIC kernel. >> > >> > mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch >> > Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. >> > Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org... >> failed. >> > No mirrors remaining, giving up. >> > [snip] >> >> There's quite a bit of useful information missing. >> >> For starters, what is the output of 'uname -a'? >> > Sorry, forgot to paste that. > mobius# uname -a > FreeBSD mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEAS= E #0: Fri Sep =A05 02:34:20 CDT 2008 =A0 =A0 rich@mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.= net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0i386 > I was able to get a mirror using: freebsd-update -r 7.1-PRERELEASE fetch --=20 Glen Barber