On Nov 28, 2008 10:38pm, PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
6. When in single user mode, cannot access /usr or /var
In single user mode only the root file system is mounted. Mount the others
manually.
So, now I get the feeling that the installation is completely screwed.
What I would like to recover is onle a bunch of files on the /usr partition
like the web stuff for apache and some other files.
What are my options? is there a way I could access these files?
It is rather strange, or is it, that I have had problems with sata hdd
connectors. In general I find that the connectors for the ps mouse and the
sata connectors are rather mickey-mouse... they are often getting bad
connections and without any intervention to the computer housing or
innard... gremlins or strange vibrations?
There's not enough information to conclude exactly what is wrong with your
machine but if you have hardware problems, you should immediately buy a new
drive (USB drive will also work), boot the machine in single-user mode,
mount the relevant file systems read-only and transfer important files to
the new drive.
If you still want to reinstall /repair the existing system, AFAIK,
FreeBSD's default installer has an "upgrade mode", in which you'll need to
tell it which partition/slice was originally mounted where and it will
proceed to install the base system. It will not touch your home directories
or /usr/local.
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