From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 04:50:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074C216A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:50:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8F943D46 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:50:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-86-22.san.res.rr.com [66.27.86.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8F4ntQV004332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:49:56 -0700 X-MailKey: purple frogs are falling from the sky Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050914214612.07437a30@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:49:22 -0700 To: "Jeff D. Hamann" , From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <002f01c5b9ad$415e5870$0a00a8c0@rodan> References: <002f01c5b9ad$415e5870$0a00a8c0@rodan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: where's the cvsupfile? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:50:06 -0000 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"