Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:07:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wes Morgan <wmorgan@DataBeam.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reinstall a single directory via FTP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830230625.664f-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708280136.VAA29330@acme.lex.databeam.com>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Wes Morgan wrote: > > I've just installed a 2.2.2-RELEASE system via FTP. > (My compliments to the folks who set that up; once > I took care of some problems in partitioning, every- > thing was *very* nice!) > > Unfortunately, I then had to restore files from the > machine's previous incarnation as a 2.1.0 system. > Thanks to a missed keystroke, I accidentally restored > /usr/bin from the 2.1.0 backups. Needless to say, > lots of stuff didn't work. > > I've moved over the old libc.so files from the 2.1.0 > system, so I have basic functionality. What I'd like > to do is (via FTP) reinstall *only* the /usr/bin > directory. If you have a functional CD and the CD set, you can copy it off of CD #2. Otherwise, you can extract the bin distribution and tell tar to only grab /usr/bin. Let me know if you need to have this explained in more detail. If you do, tell me how you grabbed the distribution files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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