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

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 16:42, ebm wrote:
> After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did.  Since I
> don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade to
> a newer version of freebsd?

Try this:

cd /usr/sbin

./sysinstall

then install the minimal binary package

afterwords to a cvsup/make buildworld to get current again

-Mike