updates + acpi
Hello I want to start using FreeBSD after using debian unstable for a year :) So I installed FreeBSD 5.1 about 2 months ago. I installed gaim and figured out that this version of gaim didn't support msn. So I wanted to upgrade my ports tree, but because my laptop is 300 mhz, I do not want to recompile my whole ports tree. I looked at freebsd-update but couldn't figure out how it worked. I also looked at PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT, but that only grabs the latest packages instead of updating the whole ports system. (I'm missing the apt-get update/upgrade tools:) Could somebody show me how to update the ports. Further, I want to use acpi, but it gives the following error while it tries to mount my drive: setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mountfailed: 6 After that I get something like this: Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype e.g. ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ? List valid diskboot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot It's not possible to mount the filesytem :( If I disable acpi than my system will boot normally. So has anyone encounterd this problem, and if not, how can I get my dmesg output to put in a bug report. This is on a toshiba portege 3020ct. Regards, Roland van Laar ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updates + acpi
The MiP RvL wrote: Hello I want to start using FreeBSD after using debian unstable for a year :) So I installed FreeBSD 5.1 about 2 months ago. I installed gaim and figured out that this version of gaim didn't support msn. So I wanted to upgrade my ports tree, but because my laptop is 300 mhz, I do not want to recompile my whole ports tree. I looked at freebsd-update but couldn't figure out how it worked. I also looked at PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT, but that only grabs the latest packages instead of updating the whole ports system. (I'm missing the apt-get update/upgrade tools:) Could somebody show me how to update the ports. Roland - if you're just looking for the latest version of gaim, chances are that 'pkg_add -r gaim' will do what you want. That should add the latest package from the master packages repository. Otherwise, check out the section of the handbook dealing with updating the ports tree with cvsup, and manually install gaim again. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html) as far as you're acpi problem, there are a number of documented problems with 5.1, many will be fixed with 5.2, but i have not been following those discussions close enough to know if your machine is effected by the known issues or something new. ~j -- Jonathan T. Sage Lighting Scenic Design Professional Web Design [HTTP://www.theatre.msu.edu] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PGP: 182C CF3F 93A9 1DAA 2EBE D4D5 A159 96D9 452E A7F1] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
