Help, I killed my machine.

[Ben Timby]

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Ben Timby wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
>> I understand a Signal 12 is a non-existant system call. The half 
>> installworld probably caused this.
>>
>> How can I recover from this?
> 
> 
> The easiest way is probably to perform an "upgrade" from a 5.4 CD burned 
> from the ISO image.  Make sure you don't repartition or enable newfs, 
> and it will leave your existing config files and other stuff alone.

I will give this a try.

> (Note that you do want to have a backup available, first.  Of course, 
> you made a backup of your 4.x system, or at least the important bits, 
> before trying to do this 4->5 upgrade, right...?)

But of course!