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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!hunter.premier.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@localhost.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP!!! File system hosed! Date: 17 Jul 1996 00:34:08 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4shce0$1lb@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <4sefjt$lka@uuneo.neosoft.com> <4sfu0c$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.180 In article <4sfu0c$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) wrote: > >> Any ideas, other than starting over from scratch <groan>? > >The fixit floppy. Yes, of course. Unfortunately, it wasn't entirely clear what to do with this, so what I ended up doing was booting from the generic boot floppy, doing an Upgrade and a minimal install and voila! Got everything back (after a little post-install fiddling). The Upgrade option remade all my device nodes for me. Yay! Now, in the future, I'll have a better idea of how to use the fixit floppy, after watching how sysinstall did things. Conrad, so relieved not to have to start over from scratch -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads