Freebsd-update question

[Glen Barber]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > 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-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep  5 02:34:20 CDT 2008     rich at mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>

I was able to get a mirror using:

freebsd-update -r 7.1-PRERELEASE fetch

-- 
Glen Barber