Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-28 Thread ebm
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: ebm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up deleted /lib/libc.so.5 > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of >

Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-27 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of David Kirchner, and lo! it spake thus: > > There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a > statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including > 'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a floppy s

Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-27 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/27/05, ebm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did. Since I > don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade to > a newer version of freebsd? Unfortunately after FreeBSD 4 all of the binaries needed to boot are dynami

Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 27 November 2005 16:42, ebm wrote: > After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did. Since I > don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade to > a newer version of freebsd? Try this: cd /usr/sbin ./sysinstall then install the minimal binary pac

Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-27 Thread ebm
After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did. Since I don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade to a newer version of freebsd? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li