So, one last update. I tried one more time with a jump from 10.3 Ghost to 12.3. Knowing what to edit during the upgrade helped, and once I got back to the freeBSd shell, I did a pkg update, then ran a package upgrade. Then I managed to get ports working, and did a portupgrade. That was a headache, i...

For what it's worth, I found out that it didn't so much break the ghost install, but I think it must be down to the .Xauthority, .serveraccess.xxx, and .xauth that's keeping me from getting a gui back after an upgrade of freeBSD. I updated, then upgraded packages, and I can get to a Mate login scree...

Sure, I realize that I can't upgrade this ghostBSD version to a good one, mainly because from what I've seen, ghostbsd has gone 64 bit, leaving 32 bit users without many options. As this particular install is a hobby only, I figured I'd play with it and get as much of it as possible functional and u...

I restored the snapshot, and uname -a reports it as 11.0-RELEASE-p15. I ran a freebsd-update, and got the expected "screw you". I then created a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ghostBSD.conf file and copied and pasted the freeBSD.conf file contents and edited the http site to https://pkg.freebsd....

So, I posted a few weeks ago about trying (and failing) to revive a 32 bit ghostBSD as a hobby project. I'm not too worried about security issues, I just want to give this perfectly good 32 bit system a repurposing rather than haul it to the dump because it's a few years old. I first tried with a 10...

Update: I decided to do a reinstall and tried adding the /pkg/repos/GhostBSD.conf file, but the /test link failed as well as the freeBSD links. So, I tried one more search with the failure string "FreeBSD:10:i386/quarterly/packagesite.txz", and one of the links was to a debian repository, ...

So, I'm currently working on some BSD installs on VirtualBox 5.2.44, the last of the 32 bit VBox versions. I got FreeBSD 13 up and running, albeit not yet full screen, and frankly, the step-by-step processes were intimidating, even in a hobby sense. So, I decided to give a 32 bit GhostBSD a try in o...