From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 08:27:26 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 4CE0D16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 08:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [216.38.168.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC75043D49 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 08:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i46FRo0I034859; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:27:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i46FRoFU034858; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:27:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:27:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <200405061527.i46FRoFU034858@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, robert@webtent.com 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 15:27:26 -0000 You don't have to install the entire OS to another machine if you have a medium to large area on your disk. Mount up the #1 CDROM and then create a scratch directory somewhere on your system. Go to the distribution that you think contains the files you are missing (sounds like "base" to me) and cat() the install.sh script. You'll see that you can execute the script and send it a "DESTINATION" argument on the command line. That script will extract that particular distribution to what ever directory you include on the command line. >Do you >think it is OK to just load the same version of FreeBSD on another >machine and then copy over the files I need?