From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 21:32:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D4937B417 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:32:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FCC28BF5 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:32:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:32:44 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: /usr/src/UPDATING & fixit.flp & females Message-ID: <20020322002147.V5960-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 [1] "20001009: The ports tree's new layout is in place. Be sure to update your entire ports tree, or you will have problems." How do I update my entire ports tree in one shot? (Or must I ftp everything individually?) I tried running "portupgrade" but I don't seem to have that! [2] Something totally mung (SNAFU) has happened to my /kernel file (I think I must have spent too long in my /boot/loader.conf file!) so now I must interrupt the boot process and at the "ok" prompt type "unload" then "load kernel.prev" then "boot." Well, I successfully booted up to FreeBSD 4.5 kern.flp then mfsroot.flp floppies -- which defaultedly shoved me up inside the sysinstall app -- then I switched to VTY4 using the Fixit menu option and "Floppy" and no problems there. Here's the major woe! *HOW* in the world do you use commands such as "ls" and "mount" and "cat" and "ee" when for practically everything except "echo $PATH" and "pwd" and a couple "cd" commands the user is told "not found?!" HUGE thank yous guys -- and ladies (some say they exist on this list), P.S. OOF! What does it mean when you type "dmesg -a" and get this (only)? dmesg: sysctl kern.msgbuf: No such file or directory -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message