Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Scott M. Likens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah, such a strong comment from such a strong member. I would have > thought you were to high to stoop that low? > > But I guess it's good to be flamed for being honest? is it not? Pot, kettle, black. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Murray
"Scott M. Likens" writes: > Ah, such a strong comment from such a strong member. I would have thought > you were to high to stoop that low? > > But I guess it's good to be flamed for being honest? is it not? Please don't encourage flames and flamers by responding to them. M -- Mark Murray iumo

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-19 Thread Scott M. Likens
Ah, such a strong comment from such a strong member. I would have thought you were to high to stoop that low? But I guess it's good to be flamed for being honest? is it not? --On Sunday, October 19, 2003 8:45 PM +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Scott M. Likens" <[EMAIL

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Scott M. Likens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Comments anyone? Yes: you're an idiot. Go play somewhere else. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Oct 2003 at 16:24, Scott M. Likens wrote: > --On Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:25 PM -0400 Dan Langille > > Cherse > Cheers? ^^ Yeah, that's what it should have been. I blame my anticipation of the baseball game... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

RE: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Jason Dictos
Hi All, Well its all back to normal! By mounting devfs to the new virtual chroot area I was able to complete a buildworld/installworld of the current branch, after a reboot the system came right back up with all my old services started normally. Thanks, -Jason -Original Message

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Scott M. Likens
--On Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:25 PM -0400 Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18 Oct 2003 at 12:16, Scott M. Likens wrote: [stuff deleted] Comments anyone? Yes. Next time, don't bother posting. I apologise for my previous post. I should have added what I was thinking. That follows

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : :On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jason Dictos wrote: : :> 1. Had FreeBSD 5.1 system running. :> 2. Did a cvsup get of stable (that's right, stable, so 4.9) :> 3. Compiled make buildworld, then did a make build world, and re-compiled :> with generic kernel :> 4. Booted into a system which could not mount

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Oct 2003 at 12:16, Scott M. Likens wrote: [stuff deleted] > Comments anyone? Yes. Next time, don't bother posting. I apologise for my previous post. I should have added what I was thinking. That follows. There's little use or sense in reacting the way you did (not that my original po

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread slave-mike
you can mount devfs as many times as your system can handle it all over the place. Jason Dictos wrote: No, can you mout devfs in a virtual root created by chroot? I know the devfs is mounted on the real root, but when i chroot to the /mnt of my old drive the /dev directory is empty with null-can

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Mark Murray
Jason Dictos writes: > From what I understand in the freebsd hand book, a cvsup get and a > buildworld won't touch anything in /etc, so if I just re-do a build > world of current I an *assuming* i'll be able to get back on track. Sort of. You've changed versions pretty seriously, so its very like

RE: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Jason Dictos
>From what I understand in the freebsd hand book, a cvsup get and a buildworld won't touch anything in /etc, so if I just re-do a build world of current I an *assuming* i'll be able to get back on track. -Jaosn -Original Message- From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sa

RE: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Scott M. Likens
Actually, I think I did... mergemaster? Maybe no one caught it and assumed it was just a ranting flame, But I imagine running mergemaster and making sure the system is synch'd would make a world of difference. Just a token thought. --On Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:52 PM -0700 Jason Dictos <

RE: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Jason Dictos
No, can you mout devfs in a virtual root created by chroot? I know the devfs is mounted on the real root, but when i chroot to the /mnt of my old drive the /dev directory is empty with null-can I re-mount in there? -Jason -Original Message- From: slave-mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Oct 2003 at 12:16, Scott M. Likens wrote: [stuff deleted] > Comments anyone? Yes. Next time, don't bother posting. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jason Dictos wrote: > 1. Had FreeBSD 5.1 system running. > 2. Did a cvsup get of stable (that's right, stable, so 4.9) > 3. Compiled make buildworld, then did a make build world, and re-compiled > with generic kernel > 4. Booted into a system which could not mount the file sy

RE: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Jason Dictos
Thanks scott, I'll try that out and let you know how it worked.. Oh wait.. You didn't say anything helpful n/m -Jason -Original Message- From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:16 PM To: Jason Dictos; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Okay, let's see he

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread Scott M. Likens
Okay, let's see here. First off you install FreeBSD 5.1, UFS2 possibly but I guess UFS1 since it booted 4.9 Some stupid reason you downgraded to 4.9, didn't run mergemaster, so all your /etc files are out of whack, and now you're bitching that you're trying to do buildworld again, and getting

Re: Help saving my system

2003-10-18 Thread slave-mike
did you mount the devfs? Jason Dictos wrote: Hi Guys, here's the scenario: 1. Had FreeBSD 5.1 system running. 2. Did a cvsup get of stable (that's right, stable, so 4.9) 3. Compiled make buildworld, then did a make build world, and re-compiled with generic kernel 4. Booted into a system which co