From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 16:46:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535CC37B41B for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.6.188.154] (helo=Skeletor2) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 16zR0i-0007QG-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:44:48 -0700 Message-ID: <000a01c1e9a7$cf1d51e0$3201a8c0@uminafamily.com> From: "Christopher J. Umina" To: "Alson van der Meulen" Cc: References: <001201c1e94a$2b550b50$0301a8c0@fritz> <20020421174337.B82499@mars.thuis> <004001c1e94c$20984180$0301a8c0@fritz> <20020421155617.GA7999@alm.xs4all.nl> <005001c1e94d$a2fd56f0$0301a8c0@fritz> <20020421161017.GB7999@alm.xs4all.nl> <006101c1e951$3217d510$0301a8c0@fritz> <20020421163607.GC7999@alm.xs4all.nl> <006701c1e955$0dc46030$0301a8c0@fritz> <20020421171051.GD7999@alm.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: no /bin/login?!?! Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:45:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This site is wicked slow for me, can I use another site? Like the default ftp6.freebsd.org? That mirror is run by my ISP (RCN). Will they have p3? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alson van der Meulen" To: "Christopher J. Umina" Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:10 AM Subject: Re: no /bin/login?!?! > Christopher J. Umina(FJU@Fritzilldo.com)@2002.04.21 12:53:23 +0000: > > Okay everybody who helped me, thanks.. I got all my data back, but the one > > question I have is, is there any way I can do an ls or something that goes > > through a filesysem and tells me only executable files? Or binaries? I > > just copied the whole /usr/home dir to my /tmp drive. (which was empty) > > Other than that I'm all set and wondering what version of BSD to install and > > how people recommend I install it. > I suggest you install the most recent release (4.5-RELEASE), and apply > the patches as stated in the advisories from freebsd.org/security. You > could also install the latest release + security updates from > ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE-p3/. > > I usually mirror the release directories to a local server and do a ftp > install from that server, but you can also install directly from a > freebsd ftp server. > > Applying security patches requires that you install the source. > > If you want to install from that snapshot server, you should use the > corresponding floppy images. > > If you don't have a network connection at the location you are > installing, you might have to download and burn an ISO image, but I > don't think there are ISO's of 4.5-RELEASE-p3 (the -p3 indicates that 3 > security patches have been applied). > > Don't forget to keep up-to-date with security updates (you might want to > subscribe to the freebsd-security-notifications mailing list). > > Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message