From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 04:03:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0114116A4DE for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 04:03:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FF843D45 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 04:03:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8343ugC002930; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k8343tqM002929; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:03:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jerold McAllister Message-ID: <20060903040355.GF2261@thought.org> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060903011102.GB2261@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , Atom Powers , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: From FIXIT: (was:Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:03:56 -0000 On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jerold McAllister wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > >On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: > >>If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will > >>give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your > >>data. > >> > > > > Where can I get this FreeSBIE boot disk? Is it a floppy or can I > > burn a CDROM? I have a "burner" on my new Ubuntu box, but have > > never burned anything but an audio CD. > > > > > > > > This is one of the myriad things I've never heard of, > > but sounds like it should be shipped with each CD boxed > > set... > > > > > > > > It is. I think all you have to do is boot the regular CD and > select live system or something like that (I don't remember the > exact label in the menu, but it should be apparent. Then you > can mount the other disk[s] and try to rescue things. > The key is "try to rescue". After fscking my filesystems I tried a reboot and ran into the fatal trap. Now I'm back i fixit mode. What I really want is to get the data files off and over to another servr. Havng /etc/* and maybe /var/db/pkg/* would be a big help. Then I could reinstall 5.3 ->5.5 and finally over to 6.1. If anybody nearby who understands the FreeSBIE boot disk can stop by in the next week or two, that'd be great. Are there ways to scp from the # Fixit environment? Or ways to recompile kernel and world frm here? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix