Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:19:36 -0500 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: repair v.7 installation Message-ID: <492FFDF8.1020705@videotron.ca>
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I believe that my installation should be salvageable but I do not know how to phrase my search question. Here is the problem: Apparently due to some connector problem in the computer one or some files were damaged. I ran a regenerating program on the disk and all sectors are readable. How can I locate the problem files and repair or reinstall them without damaging other files? From trying to boot the system, it appears that the problem is related to the login files: I boot to safe mode and get the logon prompt which is not accepted. I then get to the single user mode and can read the contents of the root (top or main) directory and subdirectories. The command "df" returns "-70016" under Avail and "104%" under Capacity, Mounted on / . Or is it possible to reinstall the system from the installation CD? I would like to avoid having to reinstall all the programs that run on this local development server - Apache, Samba, Cups, php, pstgresql, etc. Thanks for any help and/or suggestions. Phil Jourdan
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