From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 22:44:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AFA1065675 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-1516.google.com (nf-out-1516.google.com [64.233.182.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241C38FC18 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-1516.google.com with SMTP id k3so11858nfh.3 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:44:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.115.15 with SMTP id n15mr381432ebc.29.1227912244910; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:44:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0015174c1bb82c5c43045cc799d1@google.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:04 +0000 From: ivoras@gmail.com To: PJ , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Re: repair v.7 installation 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: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:06 -0000 On Nov 28, 2008 10:38pm, PJ wrote: > 6. When in single user mode, cannot access /usr or /var In single user mode only the root file system is mounted. Mount the others manually. > > > So, now I get the feeling that the installation is completely screwed. What I would like to recover is onle a bunch of files on the /usr partition like the web stuff for apache and some other files. > > > > What are my options? is there a way I could access these files? > > > > It is rather strange, or is it, that I have had problems with sata hdd connectors. In general I find that the connectors for the ps mouse and the sata connectors are rather mickey-mouse... they are often getting bad connections and without any intervention to the computer housing or innard... gremlins or strange vibrations? > There's not enough information to conclude exactly what is wrong with your machine but if you have hardware problems, you should immediately buy a new drive (USB drive will also work), boot the machine in single-user mode, mount the relevant file systems read-only and transfer important files to the new drive. If you still want to reinstall /repair the existing system, AFAIK, FreeBSD's default installer has an "upgrade mode", in which you'll need to tell it which partition/slice was originally mounted where and it will proceed to install the base system. It will not touch your home directories or /usr/local.