From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 31 9: 0:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.newgold.net (aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EAEF37B405 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19497 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Aug 2001 16:00:20 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:00:20 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett To: Jwhtencate@aol.com Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uninstall ? Message-ID: <20010831160020.A18967@NewGold.NET> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Organisation: New Gold Technology Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sounds like you don't have a /var, but this is the wrong list, try -questions instead. On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:47:41AM -0400, Jwhtencate@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot find in the documents how to get rid of FreeBSD. > Not that I want to, for my real problem is: > > Most of my commands do not work anymore. > During the booting I see > chflags: not found > chown not found > cd: can't cd to /var/run > cd can't cd to  /var/spool/lock > /etc/rc: cannot create /var/run/desmg.boot:directory nonexistent > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > Anyway, it used to be all fine. > Do I have to reinstall FreeBSD?  How do I do that? > The same install process from CD says FREEBSD is already installed. > Can I un-install FreeBSD ?? > > Please, help me out. > Can't find anything in the documentation. > > Thanks, > > JanTencate > Virginia > USA -- -- Joseph A. Mallett http://srcsys.org xMach Core Team, www.xMach.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message