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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mindspring!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!usenet From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I'm a moron... Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:08:00 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32B24440.794BDF32@androcles.com> References: <58nvc0$irh$1@bad-news.harborcom.net> <58qei1$jdg@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: androcles.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32571 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <58nvc0$irh$1@bad-news.harborcom.net>, > mfisher@ns2.harborcom.net (Mike Fisher) writes: > : Hi....after a crazed port install session, I accidentally blew away my > : entire root directory, kernel and all. Is there any easy way to build a > : new one (I did the minimum installation), or would it be best to just kill > : off the whole thing and download 2.1.6? I had 2.1.5...now I have less of > : it. :( > > Well, the only files in / are the COPYRIGHT and kernel files (and the /sys > symlink). If this is all that's gone, you should just be able to plonk > a new kernel there (or reinstall your custom one). > > If you've zapped subdirectories, eh, um, 2.1.6 looks attractive ! > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > . If you have, or can get, a bootable floppy, you an boot on it, mount the "real" root, and copy the necessaries (like the kernel) to it. Everybody should have a bootable floppy. I don't... ...yet -- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com