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Success! Thanks for the help! Booted from a live USB made from: FreeBSD-10.1-RC3-i386-mini-memstick.img Copied files from a working 9.0 system to a second USB drive and mounted with mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /media. Mounted the internal hard drive with mount /dev/ada0s1a /mnt. Overwrote...

Is there a live USB I can boot with and mount: another USB thumb-drive containing the original files that were overwritten the downed hard drive in writable mode I want to restore the files that were overwritten by freebsd-install jb_fvwm2, I have to figure out a configuration and commands...

freebsd-update also asked me to merge 100+ files mostly different only in the comment with the version number. This dramatically increases the probability of human error when merging. With freebsd-update I am not sure why files that differ only in comments can't be automatically merged or ignored.

Any way to recover from the following on the unsupported FreeBSD 9.0 release? # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update rollback /bin/sh: Undefined symbol "_ThreadRuneLocale" Can I do a non-destructive reinstall? Please advise. == More Info == Because this was not even a point upgrade I didn't...

Compile and install was successful but FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-PRERELEASE or something like that was installed. freebsd-update failed immediately when invoked from the 9.1-RC1-PRERELEASE kernel. Since I had a 9.0-RELEASE kernel available still I just did: cd /boot mv kernel...

This was probably my original error when downloading the source and doing: cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make installworld mergemaster Just noticed the stable-supfile has: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9 Instead of: *default release=cvs...

Is it possible to downgrade without formating? Please Advise. More Info: Maybe I can boot the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE Kernel on the FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT System and then do: freebsd-update So far I wasn't able to get internet using this method for freebsd-update I have also tried: vi...

To close up this thread a bit, post #6 is about as far as is useful to read. More Info: I was able to recover from: # cd /usr/src # make check-old # make delete-old I had to copy some random files from a working system and rebuild the kernel and the world like at...

Non-Destructive meaning if I had a drive with one partition as / and did a reinstall it wouldn't format the drive (just overwrite the necessary files).

@jb_fvwm2, glad not to be the only one with difficulties going from v6 > v9. We will see what happens when I try: make installworld

Is there a way to do a non-destructive (re)install from the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE CD?

I was able to copy over some of the deleted "/lib" and "/usr/lib" files from a working system via USB. Currently I am trying to follow instructions to rebuild world at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Still trying to resurrect this system. More info...

After deleting all "old" files when prompted system still boots but I get a system error when trying to login and can't go any further. Probably time for a fresh install. MORE info: After I realized some critical files were deleted and not replaced I tried to run freebsd-update again...

Is there a recommended way to upgrade FreeBSD 6.2 currently? FreeBSD 6.2 was last released in 2008 (4 Years ago). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd#Timeline Also, with regard to overwriting freebsd-update with version from the 7.2-RELEASE that supported the [upgrade] option...

Worked! Was scary but easy.

Starting with a FreeBSD 6.2 freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade MORE INFO It was very difficult to update. At first my freebsd-update version was so old it didn't allow the upgrade command, so I overwrote it with freebsd-update from a working...

mergemaster worked! @wblock@, mergemaster worked! Adding thanks! # netstat -na | grep LIST tcp4 0 0 *.22 *.* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.22 *.* LISTEN MORE INFO: It took me a bit to get comfortable with...

[root@blue /root]# sockstat -l46 USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS root bsnmpd 2229 5 udp4 *:* *:* root bsnmpd 2229 6 udp4 *:161 *:* root ftpd 2217 5 tcp6 *:21...

How can I stop FreeBSD from loading all these services and just boot with minimal services loaded? Currently my system seems to load all possible services. This is evident by typing: netstat -na | grep LIST Consequently on boot I have to have local access and run the following comands to...

Can I just do: mv /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.custom mv /boot/GENERIC /boot/kernel