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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: file system HELP HELP HELP Date: 13 Jul 1996 13:02:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31E6C1F4.6FB1@ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > I have a backup of the users, but I can't find my backups of the > root (/) and /usr file systems (as they were on a different system > and seem to have been deleted). Is there *any* way to get my system > back with out re-installing. (It will be a pain to re-do the custom > X stuff for my monitor). Thanks. Your message looks rather confusing, and even after reading thrice, i still don't know which data are lost, and how you're intending to recover them. Anyway, just in case, create a `fixit' floppy (by dumping the floppies/fixit.flp image from the CD-ROM over to a diskette), boot the regular boot floppy, select F)ixit, and insert this one. You might need to create the device nodes for some of the disk slice entries manually, but perhaps this would get you further. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)