Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:34:18 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reinstall without reformat Message-ID: <CAHu1Y72n=ZT_rCxo9oAbkiRfsnmvkO3BXJ2pkejCMdwAkW1dTg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131014161206.c4bda8cf.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20131013172430.71AA26018E@smtp.hushmail.com> <20131014040742.d03fa5bd.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310132258540.82895@wonkity.com> <20131014072118.8a49bd58.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310140740140.86796@wonkity.com> <20131014161206.c4bda8cf.freebsd@edvax.de>
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The brutal and brute-force approach can work - better if you boot from a USB stick, of course. You can untar base.tzx and kernel.tzx in your /, with filesystems mounted. As Polytropon says, do a backup of what you'll want afterwards. This approach will leave a lot of cruft (old versions of shared libraries, etc.), but will certainly work. Grab the distribution from (in this case, the example is for 9.2, i386) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.2-RELEASE
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