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From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I'm a moron...
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:08:00 -0800
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <58nvc0$irh$1@bad-news.harborcom.net>,
>         mfisher@ns2.harborcom.net (Mike Fisher) writes:
> : Hi....after a crazed port install session, I accidentally blew away my
> : entire root directory, kernel and all.  Is there any easy way to build a
> : new one (I did the minimum installation), or would it be best to just kill
> : off the whole thing and download 2.1.6?  I had 2.1.5...now I have less of
> : it.  :(
> 
> Well, the only files in / are the COPYRIGHT and kernel files (and the /sys
> symlink).  If this is all that's gone, you should just be able to plonk
> a new kernel there (or reinstall your custom one).
> 
> If you've zapped subdirectories, eh, um, 2.1.6 looks attractive !
> 
> --
> Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
>       <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
> .
If you have, or can get, a bootable floppy, you an boot on it, mount the
"real" root,
and copy the necessaries (like the kernel) to it.

Everybody should have a bootable floppy.

I don't...

...yet
-- 
Duane H. Hesser
dhh@androcles.com