Base System Rebuild

[Shane Ambler]

On 11/12/2013 04:55, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Brute force, heavy hammer approach...
> 
> for i386:
> 
> fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.2-RELEASE/base.txz
> tar -xf -C / base.txz
> 
> for amd64:
> 
> fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.2-RELEASE/base.txz
> tar -xf -C / base.txz

That's what I was going to suggest - if you have any issues with fetch
download it to another machine and copy it over. There is a /rescue/tar
if tar is broken but there is no fetch in rescue. Could be useful to
have fetch added to rescue.