From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 3 08:14:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA14562 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA14557 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsampley@localhost) by shell9.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26015 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:14:48 -0700 (PDT) From: To: questions@FreeBSd.org Subject: installing / and /var only Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I recently 'toasted' my primary HD while attempting to get both FBSD and a "free" version of SCO (I know what you're all thinking, but don't flame me, I just wanted to get some experience with SVR4) to cohabitate. SCO didn't want to stay within it's slice and made my /var slice unusable (and SCO seems to be randomly hanging, oh well...). My / (on the same HD) and /usr (on the slave HD, BTW, the swap slice is also on the second HD) where OK. I was able to fsck both FS's (but it puked on /var). I tar'ed my entire /etc dir to the /usr FS. I have just completed a 'low level' format of my primary drive. Here's the $64K question. Can I install just / and /var, if so how? I was using 3.0-current with sources that are able to complete 'make world' without puking (CVSUP'ed a few days ago). I have the 3.0-current CD set dated 5/28. If I can't install just the / and /var FS's what's the best way to do the install without destroying /usr on the 2nd HD (I have about 3 day's worth of D/L'ed applications on that slice that I would prefer to not lose - I D/L'ed them about 2 days before the 3.0-current CDs magically arrived via subscription)? Oh, BTW, I don't have backup. Thanks in advance, Burton Sampley