From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 01:17:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00292 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 01:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.42.org (sec@matrix.42.org [192.68.213.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA00276 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 01:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA24962; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:16:50 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: sec From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP! I broke my computer! Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:16:48 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <199704042200.RAA28783@netcom7.netcom.com> X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hoi, In article <199704042200.RAA28783@netcom7.netcom.com>, Stan Brown wrote: > HELP! Please. What can I do to get out of this mess? you could try to boot with the root/fixit.flp and then mount & backup your partitions before you reinstall (which i suspect would be the safest way to get out of this) > Oh, and why isn't tar in /sbin or at leastsomewhere on teh root > partition? It's there (at least with 2.1.0 - and i guess they didn't change it) as /stand/tar :) > Thanks for the help. HTH, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error