Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> >The fourth reason to have separate partitions is to make it easier > >to isolate things. You may want to make a certain amount of space > >available for users to write in, but want to keep them out of other > >space. There are various ways to do it. Having things grouped > >conveniently i

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: The long ago origins of making things in many partitions was when disks were much much smaller. So were backup media. It was common to have each piece on a separate disk. Then disks got big enough to put more than one part on and so on. Now, there are a couple of go

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:24AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Disclaimer: IANAE. > > Joshua Kordani wrote: > >Hello all! > > > > > So i figure I might as well reinstall the OS, as > >that is why i made separate partitions for user data and system files (so > >i think, > >this is my firs

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Disclaimer: IANAE. Joshua Kordani wrote: Hello all! I was running 5.1 release till pretty much last week when I believe the machine experienced an unplanned powercycle. since then i get an error about libedit.so.4 being missing, and being required by sh, please input path to sh or hit enter.

using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Joshua Kordani
Hello all! I was running 5.1 release till pretty much last week when I believe the machine experienced an unplanned powercycle. since then i get an error about libedit.so.4 being missing, and being required by sh, please input path to sh or hit enter. ok, so i know about /rescue/sh, and the fixi