Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:45:53 -0500 From: Ben Timby <asp@webexc.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I killed my machine. Message-ID: <42BB1171.8000705@webexc.com> In-Reply-To: <42BB0DD3.2070502@mac.com> References: <42BB0C22.6010000@webexc.com> <42BB0DD3.2070502@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Ben Timby wrote: > [ ... ] > >> I understand a Signal 12 is a non-existant system call. The half >> installworld probably caused this. >> >> How can I recover from this? > > > The easiest way is probably to perform an "upgrade" from a 5.4 CD burned > from the ISO image. Make sure you don't repartition or enable newfs, > and it will leave your existing config files and other stuff alone. I will give this a try. > (Note that you do want to have a backup available, first. Of course, > you made a backup of your 4.x system, or at least the important bits, > before trying to do this 4->5 upgrade, right...?) But of course!
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