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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: 2nd stupidiest thing I could ever do.
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Ok, I did some work on this...

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Here are some things I would try..
> 
> -option 1------
> boot the boot floppy.
> use the 'fixit' option.
> mount tho old root as /mnt
> mount/usr as /mnt/usr

Done.
 
> 'cd / ; find / -xdev |cpio -pdmuv /mnt'
> to copy  all of the fixit floppy onto /mnt

Done.
 
> chroot /mnt
> cd /usr/src
> cd /etc
> make -k install
> make -k hierarchy
> make -k world
> make -k world
> make world

Tried some. Final make world failed. I don't remember the errors quite
exactly...

Now I can boot the kernel, and run FreeBSD, but all it does is to get me
to the install menu, because this is a copy!!!!

Now what should I do? Where can I get some examples of /etc files?

Thanks!

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