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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
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Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of
David Kirchner, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a
> statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including
> 'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a floppy somewhere
> else you may be able to copy it into place with these utilities.

Note that it also has mount_nfs and rcp, so if you've got another box
handy 'nearby', you can get creative like that.


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