Date: 06 May 2004 14:32:36 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, robert@webtent.com Subject: Re: Restoring system files from CD Message-ID: <44u0ytfltn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200405061527.i46FRoFU034858@whoweb.com> References: <200405061527.i46FRoFU034858@whoweb.com>
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Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> writes: > 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. Given that the needed files are already listed in a file, you could do it directly and just unpack those particular files. Something along the lines of "cat /mnt/cdrom/bin/* | tar -xzT listingFile -f -" should do it.
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