On Fri, 09 Apr 1999, Tim Belding wrote:
>At 10:25 PM 04/08/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Tim Belding wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone....
>>>
>>> You know....life's a funny thing? I was working on backing up my system to
>>> my newly installed jaz drive. Good thing right?
>>>
>>> Well I was at /mnt/jaz and had a directory there called /mnt/jaz/lib. Not
>>> my full /lib directory from my system just a dir that I created during
>>> testing my backup. Well I wanted to get rid of it. So.....I typed (now
>>> don't laugh) rm -rf /lib........yeah....I'm a dumbass....I was root so
>>> guess what? Couldn't get my shell to work....most commands didn't
>>> work....so I tried using a rescue disk and it cannot open an initial term.
>>> So now I can't even boot the damn thing!
>>>
>>> Anyway....I probably did that 'cause I was tired. So I'm going home now,
>>> but hopefully in the morning there will be a wonderful email waiting for me
>>> telling me how to undo my stupidity.
>>
>>Ooh, that's a good one
>>
>>boot off a tomsrtbt, generate a list of packages that have stuff in /lib
>>and reinstall those
>>
>
>I'm looking right now myself....but where can I find tomsrtbt?
>
http://www.toms.net/rb
>>
>>or reinstall with the upgrade option
>>
>
>Tried that one.....it can't find my rpms....is that going to rule out the
>tomsrtbt option as well?
>
I'd recommend that you customize tomsrtbt so that it can access your jaz drive:
then restore that directory....
>Tim.
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