From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 6:29:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B66E1540B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 06:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:32:13 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617967C@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Andrew Iltchenko' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Please help me Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:25:52 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Iltchenko [SMTP:andrey@agama.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 3:19 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Please help me >=20 > I've done a terrible thing. [ML] Yep. You sure did--here is a conical hat for you <:) > =9A > The worst thing is that I was writing a project on this system and > wrote lots of code. If I simply reinstall FreeBSD all my work will = get > lost! [ML] Not neccessarily. Hopefully the code you wrote resides on a separate partition (i.e. in your /home which is on a partition of its own). In that case, you can reinstall, you just have to make sure that you do not newfs the partition where the current /home resides. If this is not the case, you can try to use the fixit floppy in order to dump the filesystem where your code resides, reinstall, and restore the parts of the filesystem where your code was. You can also boot with fixit floppy and install the ld-so if you can find the correct version somewhere else. However, I expect that other shared libraries will also be missing. Also, you can do the binary upgrade to 3.2, without newfsing the already existing partitions (upgrade installation will overwrite the still existing files, but will not touch--hopefully--your code because the file names are different). /Marino > =9A > Please write to me what I shall do in order to recover my project. > =9A > Thank you in advance. > =9A > Sincerely, > Andrew Iltchenko. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message