From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 07:26:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB6816A4D0 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [216.38.168.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5950E43D48 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i46EQX7d033328; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i46EQX9B033327; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:26:33 -0400 (EDT) From: jon Message-Id: <200405061426.i46EQX9B033327@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, robert@webtent.com In-Reply-To: <1083849004.7329.5.camel@columbus> Subject: Re: Restoring system files from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:26:10 -0000 First, check the live filesystem cd to see if the one you want is on there. If not, you'll have to extract the files you want out of the distribution tar files. There are quite a few of them so you'll have to try to figure out which tar file holds the particular file you are interested in. It would be nice if the FreeBSD web site held a master inventory of each tar file and the system files within it, for reference purposes. >How can I restore some lost system files from the original 5.2.1-RELEASE >CD-ROM? Is there somewhere in the handbook to discuss this?