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by trigggl
Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:15 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: FreeBSD 10.0 upgrade
Replies: 2
Views: 6335

Re: FreeBSD 10.0 upgrade

I've read about this, because I've recompiled my kernel already. What I understand is that if the contents of /boot/old_kernel are the original you make a directory named GENERIC and copy the contents of old_kernel into GENERIC. Then it should update okay. The route I took was to install a complete...
by trigggl
Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:42 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: FreeBSD 10.0 upgrade
Replies: 2
Views: 6335

FreeBSD 10.0 upgrade

For some reason I decided I want to try to upgrade to 10.0 now that it's released. 'freebsd-update' of course complains that the kernel is a GhostBSD kernel and that it has to be updated manually before running 'freebsd-update install' (which it warned me about after running it). Is there a way to u...
by trigggl
Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:30 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: GhostBSD and ports
Replies: 4
Views: 8687

Re: GhostBSD and ports

If you are an old Gentoo user I think you wont have any problem to use FreeBSD. I never used Gentoo for desktop really, more for dedicated servers but if you like to start with GhostBSD it is a good option for sure and you can use ports, in fact I am using ports at this moment. We are working on th...
by trigggl
Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:13 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: GhostBSD and ports
Replies: 4
Views: 8687

GhostBSD and ports

Is it possible to make GhostBSD primarily ports based. It seems like versions of packages seem to get in the way. I'm thinking of switching from Gentoo Linux to GhostBSD and I'd like as much software as possible built from ports. Would it be easier to just start from a FreeBSD system? Gentoo may los...