Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:04 +0000 From: ivoras@gmail.com To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: repair v.7 installation Message-ID: <0015174c1bb82c5c43045cc799d1@google.com>
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On Nov 28, 2008 10:38pm, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> 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.
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