From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 23:07:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22556 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22551 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00940; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:07:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Wes Morgan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reinstall a single directory via FTP? In-Reply-To: <199708280136.VAA29330@acme.lex.databeam.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Wes Morgan wrote: > > I've just installed a 2.2.2-RELEASE system via FTP. > (My compliments to the folks who set that up; once > I took care of some problems in partitioning, every- > thing was *very* nice!) > > Unfortunately, I then had to restore files from the > machine's previous incarnation as a 2.1.0 system. > Thanks to a missed keystroke, I accidentally restored > /usr/bin from the 2.1.0 backups. Needless to say, > lots of stuff didn't work. > > I've moved over the old libc.so files from the 2.1.0 > system, so I have basic functionality. What I'd like > to do is (via FTP) reinstall *only* the /usr/bin > directory. If you have a functional CD and the CD set, you can copy it off of CD #2. Otherwise, you can extract the bin distribution and tell tar to only grab /usr/bin. Let me know if you need to have this explained in more detail. If you do, tell me how you grabbed the distribution files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo