Well, that's what I thought, I just wanted to be sure. I've done that once before. As I recall, there was a very long string of questions I had to answer at one point. I pretty much just told the system not to change things, go with defaults, etc. That's the safest bet, right? This is similar to reinstalling Windoze on top of an existing installation, right? TIA, Drew
----- Original Message ---- From: Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Drew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:45:40 AM Subject: Re: Corrupted OS On 16/03/07, Drew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 23Hi; > Is it possible to rebuild an OS without reformatting the hard drive? I have > FBSD6.2, so I can't upgrade. What are you trying to do? You could always go to /usr/src and do a make buildworld, which would rebuild the entire FreeBSD userland. Ports can be rebuilt, too, for example by doing a portupgrade -afk > TIA, > Drew Christian ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
