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Subject: Re: Corrupted OS
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Christian Walther wrote:
> On 16/03/07, Drew Jenkins <drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 23Hi;
>> Is it possible to rebuild an OS without reformatting the hard drive? I 
>> have FBSD6.2, so I can't upgrade.
> 
> What are you trying to do? You could always go to /usr/src and do a
> make buildworld, which would rebuild the entire FreeBSD userland.
> Ports can be rebuilt, too, for example by doing a portupgrade -afk
> 
>> TIA,
>> Drew
> 
> Christian

Drew,
	Depends on how "corrupted" it is. Could you provide details?
Thanks,
-Garrett