Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

[ebm]

Cool, I'll try it later on today. I was able to copy the file to my
server from a via a nfs connection that was established before my
blunder.
I kept running into the problem of not having the ability to cp anything
since cp used that library file.  If the /rescue works then I'll be backup up and
running.  When this is all fixed I think I'll just upgrade 6.0 since I
already downloaded the iso files.

Thanks everybody for the help!
 
 On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:21:16PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:21:16 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
> To: David Kirchner <dpk at dpk.net>
> Cc: ebm <ebm-freebsd-stable at swervinghead.com>, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5
> 
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of
> David Kirchner, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a
> > statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including
> > 'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a floppy somewhere
> > else you may be able to copy it into place with these utilities.
> 
> Note that it also has mount_nfs and rcp, so if you've got another box
> handy 'nearby', you can get creative like that.
> 
> 
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