From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 10:50:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681C616A404 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB9F43D46 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:50:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so1334130pya for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:50:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=txwO3R/9PZ0QST8X9ELpDOU5LoNd6fxRbDNwGTur26y/cifuvuxbx/w92mwECDHU5nuGMXGKu5vempmQXr6eHXBfjI/rWZ/jXmhw8xV2gY7Wh89tH6ZhascRxNVl5u9Ulfyh7Mqt5/8bBOrRPBZAlwWRUb+mwY1My2CTvbKkemE= Received: by 10.35.49.4 with SMTP id b4mr2642022pyk; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.13.3 with HTTP; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 06:50:23 -0400 From: "David Stanford" To: "Kyrre Nygard" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512183937.02190800@broadpark.no> <200605150654.38042.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516102601.02238458@broadpark.no> <200605160412.37036.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Donald J. O'Neill" Subject: Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:50:25 -0000 Kyrre, How large is your /var slice? If it's large enough to fit /home (or at leas= t the files you'd like to save), maybe try booting into single-user mode, mount /usr and /var, wipe out /var, copy the files from /usr/home to /var, and just remember to document what slice /var was. Then you could just reinstall the base system around it using a 6.1-RELEASE CD, no? Just a shot in the dark... -David On 5/16/06, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > At 11:12 16.05.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > >On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:30, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > > > > > Hello Don! > > > > > > Yes it's the `make buildworld' as far as I know. > > > > > > The /etc/make.conf contains PERL_VER=3D5.8.7 and PERL_VERSION=3D5.8.7= . > > > > > > Is it possible, do you think, to use a FreeSBIE CD maybe to clean out > > > everything on my harddrive but my /home/kyrre where all my important > > > files are, and then reinstall the latest FreeBSD without > > > reformatting? > > > > > > It might be risky, let's say I hit the wrong switch and it does > > > format everything, > > > but you get my point right? To just lay a new FreeBSD on top of an > > > empty harddrive? > > > > > > I hope this is possible somehow ... > > > > > > Well, take care Don! > > > > > > -- Kyrre > >Is /home on a slice of its own. Mine is, for the reason that if I have > >to blow off the system and reinstall, I can safely do that, as long as > >I don't make any changes to /home, just remount it as /home. You can do > >this with sysinstall, very easlily. > > > >Send the output from 'df', I can tell from that. > > > >Don > > Hello! > > Actually, my /home is under /usr ... uh oh huh? > No can do then? > > Thanks for the tip of having /home as a seperate slice though, > I'll treasure it for the rest of my days! > > Peace, > Kyrre > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >