Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:16:39 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: system recovery Message-ID: <200605312116.39802.jhorne@dfwlp.com>
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ok, i trashed my system (being dumb!), and now im preparing to try to get it back, and my goal is to try to skip the 38 hour kde compile from ports (yes, i like ports, not packages). before i burned it all down, i did make a tarball of /. i did try to untar it with -C /, but it got about 5 seconds into it, hit a lib it didnt like the version of (must have been something *REAL* important), as the system locked up as hard as it could be. so, i would like to begin by trying to skip the buildworld and buildkernel. i still have my entire /usr/src directory, so could i realistically just untar that into /usr/src, boot to single, and proceed with mergemaster/make installworld'ing? or, can someone recommend how i might use that tarball of my entire system to quickly get a new system up and running (all this with the assumtion that i have not changed any hardware configurations). if someone has time to answer quickly, i would sure appreciate it. thanks a bunch, jonathan
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