From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 09:46:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA08029 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 09:46:44 -0800 Received: from suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (suned1.nswses.navy.mil [137.24.30.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA08024 ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 09:46:40 -0800 Received: from gcpacix.vcnet.com by suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (4.1/Nswses4.1.2_920723eb) id AA06623; Sun, 29 Oct 95 09:46:10 PST Received: (from efb@localhost) by gcpacix.vcnet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA09027; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:46:19 GMT Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:46:18 +0000 () From: Everett F Batey X-Sender: efb@gcpacix.vcnet.com To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, paul@FreeBSD.org Subject: Lost my original /sbin/dset -q values Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I blew it and I have too much invested with still no back up to nuke it with a complete reload .. Was just trying to find my /dev/ed1 (TrendNet-16) Novell 2000 Ether_Clone. Well I lost most of the values of what "boot -c" gets you .. got one hot answer back that it was all lost and non-retrievable. Looking at strings of /dev/dset .. homed me in on /kernel and /cdrom/kernel.Gen which are (per md5) identical .. Then /cdrom /var/db .. 10885454 -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody wheel 0 Jun 9 14:57 locate.database vs /var/db 7686 -r--r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 467916 Oct 27 20:34 locate.database 7704 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 315392 Jul 26 21:04 kvm_kernel.db Suggests that is where dset and the kernel keep the saved values .. sadly as data and not as ascii .. I would really welcome a scheme to restore ... without a reload .. killing all my user stuff, apps, ppp etc ... the kernel values that I hosed in the boot -c .. Also any leads to mating a HP DJ500 would go a long way .. Many thanks for any leads .. hate blasting lists with such low level stuff but I admit I am dedicate to using BSD and want to get a good enough handle to move it into our schools .. VR /Ev/ + efb@cotdazr.org http://www.vcnet.com/efb efb@oxnardsd.org [efb15] WA6CRE + + Opinions MINE, NOT Uncles | Edu: http://www.oxnardsd.org/ innd email DNS + + 805.655.2017 Beep .. 805.982.7180 ofc many fwds .. 805.340.6471..2..5 VM +