From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 0:37:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8AF337B405 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:37:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 64943 invoked by uid 100); 15 Mar 2002 08:37:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15505.45752.652421.129662@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 02:37:12 -0600 To: Terrac Skiens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which list? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Terrac Skiens typed: > I need assistance in getting my system back from the point of > near-deadness. I screwed up the CVSup and got 1/2 way into a make > installworld of the current tree. I am stuck with a 4.2 kernel and 1/2 a > 5.0 userland. oops, my bad. > i can't get root, I get all sorts of weird errors. which list is best for > my plight? This one. -questions is almost *never* the wrong place to ask a question, so long as it's pertinent to FreeBSD. At worst you don't get an answer in a couple of days, and try another list. At best, you get the answer. In the middle, you get pointed to another list. I'd recommend booting the 4.2 fixit cdrom, mounting your file systems under /mnt, then copying userland from the CDROM to /mnt. That should get you running off your disk again, though it's not optimal. While you're at it, go to /mnt/dev and do a "./MAKEDEV all" to make sure you've got the right devices. At this point, you can cvsup the sources you want to install, and try again. On a related note, if you're installing -current, the approach of newfs'ing the disk and starting from scratch should be perfectly acceptable, if not optimal. If you can't afford to fry a system, you probably can't afford to run -current on it. As an aside to those who haven't been paying attention, *this* is why we always install and boot a new kernel before trying to install the world. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message