On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:47, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I created, I
> took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems
> impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my
> baselayout!. Now all I get is init # when booting. I tried to mount
> /usr, and /home and all I get is /dev/hda1 doesn't exist, as well as
> /dev/hdb1. fstab is there in /etc. and df shows all filesystems although
> the space calculations appear dorked as well. Is there a way to get to
> emerge and install a baselayout?
>
> Mike
You could still :
- boot from a gentoo livecd
- mount your broken partition
- for f in `qpkg -l -nc baselayout`; do cp "$f" /YOURBROKENPART/"$f"; done
- you should be able to reboot on your broken system
- and emerge baselalyout
No need to reinstall :)
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