Look on the positive... Think how much better you will know Linux after
installing it a second time in as many weeks. Most of us aren't that
lucky...
Do you have separate partitions? at least one for /home? At any rate, you
will next time...
You might also look at this as a good time to try out Mandrake - my favorite
workstation distro.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SLUG"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I'm using RED HAT 7.0.
>
> I'll look in the /bin directory for anything that looks usable.
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilkinson [mailto:jaq@willow]On Behalf Of James Wilkinson
> Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 1:50 PM
> To: Simon Wong
> Cc: SLUG
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Friday afternoon request for help - PLEASE
>
>
> This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said:
> >I realised once it started that I had done a bad thing and am now minus
> some
> >useful directories namely "/usr/bin" and "/usr/X11R6" :-((
>
> Without seeing the actual damage, I'd say you're hosed. /usr/bin is
> quite necessary, and if you don't have that directory anymore, then the
> system is mostly unusable.
>
> What distro are you using?
>
> You might be in luck and find that tools for rebuilding the machine are
> in /bin (I'm guessing that /bin is still there, as you can boot into
> it), if you're using debian, there must be an option to apt to reinstall
> packages that are broken -- anyone know?
>
> Failing that, you'll have to back up your home dir, and reinstall.
>
> --
> jamesw
>
> Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY.
>
>
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