cvsup and amd64

[Beech Rintoul]

On Friday 15 December 2006 16:18, Old Ranger wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 18:04, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
> > Please tell me, did I need to specify anything specifically about the
> > amd64 architecture when running cvsup?  Did I possibly get a GENERIC
> > kernel file through cvsup that is not compatible with amd?
> >
> > **********************************************************************
> >
> > Sorry for the horrible formatting, but for reasons beyond my control, I
> > only have access to Microsoft Outlook right now.  It appears no one has
> > answered you yet, so, to alleviate your fears, yes, unless you've changed
> > the kernel in any way (and it sounds like you haven't), a simple make
> > buildkernel and make installkernel should work just fine.  Reboot
> > afterwards, and you should be running the new kernel.  The only reason
> > you would *need* to make a change would be if you're running dual
> > processors or you need to customize the kernel for performance reasons. 
> > Otherwise the GENERIC kernel will suffice.
> >
> > Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> > Senior Information Security Analyst
> > University of Texas at Dallas
> > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>
> ****
>
> Thank you!
> Somehow, I got through it today, with SMP working too!
>
> I had a little problem with mergemaster, after buildworld, which had a
> couple of problems that I got around with the make -k argument.
> Some things didn't get built.
>
>
> Mergemaster rejected some files - /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d/jail
>         /var/tmp/temproot/etc/ssh/ssh_config
>         /var/tmp/temproot/etc/ssh/sshd.config
>         /var/tmp/temproot/etc/motd
>
> I elected to "merge by hand", just to coplete the process.
> Now I'll have to learn what it means to "merge by hand."
>
> Thanks to all who responded with advice and insights.
>
> I have now a working amd64x2 kernel and a partially built, installed, and
> merged world.
>
> There are still some strange messages appearing at boot time.
>
> That's for another day.

Merge by hand means to go to /usr/src/etc and copy the files you need to /etc 
then add in any changes by hand. Since you are doing a fresh install, just 
copy the files to /etc and you should be fine.

Beech

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