using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Joshua Kordani
Hello all! I was running 5.1 release till pretty much last week when I believe the machine experienced an unplanned powercycle. since then i get an error about libedit.so.4 being missing, and being required by sh, please input path to sh or hit enter. ok, so i know about /rescue/sh, and the

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Disclaimer: IANAE. Joshua Kordani wrote: Hello all! I was running 5.1 release till pretty much last week when I believe the machine experienced an unplanned powercycle. since then i get an error about libedit.so.4 being missing, and being required by sh, please input path to sh or hit enter.

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:24AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Disclaimer: IANAE. Joshua Kordani wrote: Hello all! ..libedit.so stuff deleted.. So i figure I might as well reinstall the OS, as that is why i made separate partitions for user data and system files (so i think, this

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jerry McAllister wrote: The long ago origins of making things in many partitions was when disks were much much smaller. So were backup media. It was common to have each piece on a separate disk. Then disks got big enough to put more than one part on and so on. Now, there are a couple of

Re: using sysinstall upgrade as a repair solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
The fourth reason to have separate partitions is to make it easier to isolate things. You may want to make a certain amount of space available for users to write in, but want to keep them out of other space. There are various ways to do it. Having things grouped conveniently in some