From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 10:02:40 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 5623816A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Palimpsest.saic.hq.nasa.gov (Palimpsest.saic.hq.nasa.gov [198.116.138.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 316D043F85 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Chris.Shenton@hq.nasa.gov) Received: (qmail 96795 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Nov 2003 18:02:36 -0000 To: masta@wifibsd.org References: <61070.24.0.61.35.1069175389.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> From: Chris Shenton Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:02:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <61070.24.0.61.35.1069175389.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> ("masta"'s message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:09:49 -0600 (CST)") Message-ID: <86d6bpo8qr.fsf@Palimpsest.saic.hq.nasa.gov> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovery? recent "make world" rendered system unusable (64 bit change) 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: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:02:40 -0000 "masta" writes: > The easy way is to grab a recent livecd from the jp snapshot service. > [ http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ ] > > With the jpsnap livecd I was able to boot, copy all the working > binaries from the cdrom over the corrupt binaries on the local HDD. I > suggest you try the same idea. That seems a like a nice suite, but the site says it's acts like a 4.6 repair, so I don't think the binaries would be suitable for replacing my damaged 5.1 commands. :-(