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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:34:14 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        mahlerrd@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd-update question
Message-ID:  <4ad871310908080734j1a1da1b9qa1100b01398a42f9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <129263.24894.qm@web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd@yahoo.com> 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



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