URGENT HELP REQUIRED

[CARTER Anthony]

Ok, Re-install panicked...I panicked...

Then I remember that I was a clever boy and had moved all my home directories 
to a seperate partition (yes, partition, not just slice)....

Hence, I re-installed minus newfs using a standard user dist set and then did 
a CVS up...re-made world (after changing my CPU flag to reflect the ACTUAL 
CPU that I have) and then restarted in single, installworld blah blah, and 
now I am back up and running...

Funny thing is, since I did all that, my system seems to be much more 
"responsive"...maybe cleared out some problems doing that hahaha...

Well, took me half a day in the end...

Thanks for all your help everyone,

Anthony Carter

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 21:08, Terry Lambert wrote:
> CARTER Anthony wrote:
> > I am downloading latest ISOs and will re-install but without removing my
> > current installation (just overwrite).
> >
> > Anyone got any "gotchas" that I should know about or watch out for?
>
> 1)	Use the "upgrade" option, don't "reinstall"; you won't have
> 	to edit disklabels or anything.
>
> 2)	If you have run pwd_mkdb since the on disk version changed,
> 	you will lose access to your current password file until
> 	you rebuild and reinstall the new code.  To get in, you
> 	will need to boot from the CD, go into the "emergency"
> 	shell, and then mount and chroot to the disk FS, so you
> 	can do your build as "root".
>
> > I think its the easiest way...
> >
> > Well, you learn the hard way :D
>
> -- Terry