From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 07:23:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DD537B404 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D7143F93 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3UEY01d013029; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:34:00 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:19:49 +0200 Received: from 212.190.217.170 ([212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JS23BY39; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:19:39 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Terry Lambert , CARTER Anthony Organization: Intrasoft Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:23:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <3EAECDB5.90076EB0@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3EAECDB5.90076EB0@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304301623.54352.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-129.6 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,NIGERIAN_SUBJECT2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:23:21 -0000 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