Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 06:50:23 -0400 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "Kyrre Nygard" <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <f2c91f770605160350i22ce8658od313a10699d6daf0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512183937.02190800@broadpark.no> <200605150654.38042.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516102601.02238458@broadpark.no> <200605160412.37036.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no>
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Kyrre, How large is your /var slice? If it's large enough to fit /home (or at leas= t the files you'd like to save), maybe try booting into single-user mode, mount /usr and /var, wipe out /var, copy the files from /usr/home to /var, and just remember to document what slice /var was. Then you could just reinstall the base system around it using a 6.1-RELEASE CD, no? Just a shot in the dark... -David On 5/16/06, Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote: > > At 11:12 16.05.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > >On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:30, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > > > > > Hello Don! > > > > > > Yes it's the `make buildworld' as far as I know. > > > > > > The /etc/make.conf contains PERL_VER=3D5.8.7 and PERL_VERSION=3D5.8.7= . > > > > > > Is it possible, do you think, to use a FreeSBIE CD maybe to clean out > > > everything on my harddrive but my /home/kyrre where all my important > > > files are, and then reinstall the latest FreeBSD without > > > reformatting? > > > > > > It might be risky, let's say I hit the wrong switch and it does > > > format everything, > > > but you get my point right? To just lay a new FreeBSD on top of an > > > empty harddrive? > > > > > > I hope this is possible somehow ... > > > > > > Well, take care Don! > > > > > > -- Kyrre > >Is /home on a slice of its own. Mine is, for the reason that if I have > >to blow off the system and reinstall, I can safely do that, as long as > >I don't make any changes to /home, just remount it as /home. You can do > >this with sysinstall, very easlily. > > > >Send the output from 'df', I can tell from that. > > > >Don > > Hello! > > Actually, my /home is under /usr ... uh oh huh? > No can do then? > > Thanks for the tip of having /home as a seperate slice though, > I'll treasure it for the rest of my days! > > Peace, > Kyrre > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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