Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:23:54 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED Message-ID: <200304301623.54352.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <3EAECDB5.90076EB0@mindspring.com> References: <A2DF56E8BC9B964884DD1A7C9C812C0F01301430@mail.intrasoft.lu> <3EAECDB5.90076EB0@mindspring.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ok, Re-install panicked...I panicked... Then I remember that I was a clever boy and had moved all my home directories to a seperate partition (yes, partition, not just slice).... Hence, I re-installed minus newfs using a standard user dist set and then did a CVS up...re-made world (after changing my CPU flag to reflect the ACTUAL CPU that I have) and then restarted in single, installworld blah blah, and now I am back up and running... Funny thing is, since I did all that, my system seems to be much more "responsive"...maybe cleared out some problems doing that hahaha... Well, took me half a day in the end... Thanks for all your help everyone, Anthony Carter On Tuesday 29 April 2003 21:08, Terry Lambert wrote: > CARTER Anthony wrote: > > I am downloading latest ISOs and will re-install but without removing my > > current installation (just overwrite). > > > > Anyone got any "gotchas" that I should know about or watch out for? > > 1) Use the "upgrade" option, don't "reinstall"; you won't have > to edit disklabels or anything. > > 2) If you have run pwd_mkdb since the on disk version changed, > you will lose access to your current password file until > you rebuild and reinstall the new code. To get in, you > will need to boot from the CD, go into the "emergency" > shell, and then mount and chroot to the disk FS, so you > can do your build as "root". > > > I think its the easiest way... > > > > Well, you learn the hard way :D > > -- Terry
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200304301623.54352.a.carter>