SOLVED!! I tried a tip of a earlier post - I wiped the new disk clean of all postgres packages. - I moved the old postgres lib dir to /var/lib/postgresql - did a apt-get install postgresql which installed postgres and all packages needed.
During the installation process a message appeared the package has detected a data dir. Then it said that postmaster was running at pid 337, but there was no such process. I stopped the installation and removed the postmaster.pid file, and contiued the installation. Now it works great, I can access all old data. Thank you very much for the help /nisse ons 2002-10-23 klockan 20.23 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > > > Hello! > > > > One of my harddrives crashed two day ago. Only the /lib och /usr > > directories was on one of my other hd's. > > Do you mean /lib which contained the $PGDATA is still accessable. > please try to locate the folder named "data" that contains folder like > base, pg_xlog , global , pg_clog etc. > > In case such a folder is available to you , you can start the postmaster daemon > by specifying the PGDATA folder (-D) option. > > please let us know if such folder is there , we can help you recoverver you data. > > Regds > MAllah. > > > > > > The old hd can no longer be detected by the bios. I have reinstalled everything >now. > > The data directory in the old /lib contains what I would guess is > > postgresqls table data. Can I recover the data? > > I have tried to overwrite the new installation with the old files, but the old >database is not > > there. > > > > I am a newbie in SQL-land, does anyone know how to revcover the data? > > > > /nisse > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: >Don't 'kill -9' > > the postmaster > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Get your free web based email at trade-india.com. > "India's Leading B2B eMarketplace.!" > http://www.trade-india.com/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
