Re: FreeBSD 4.9 won't upgrade ?

From: Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd_at_over-yonder.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:06:40 -0600
[ Redirecting to -stable, where it's more appropriate ]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:31:10PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Jim Keller, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I go through the whole process, and although it does appear to
> recompile the system (my openssl went from the original distro to
> the newest version, for example), uname -a is still reporting the
> distro as 4.9-RELEASE.

That's because you haven't installed the new kernel.


> Also, it will not install a custom kernel, it always goes to
> GENERIC, even when I specify KERNCONF= in the buildkernel process.

This I dunno about.  Were I you, I'd just go ahead and get GENERIC
installed and running so that your kernel matches your userland at
least, then worry about why your can't seem to build your own kernel.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd_at_over-yonder.net
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Received on Tue Jan 24 2006 - 03:06:43 UTC

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