On 28 Jun 2012 at 9:15, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Matthew Mondor wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:20:36 -0000 > > "David Lord" <net...@lordynet.org> wrote: > > > >> I tried NetBSD-6-BETA2 but had too many problems. > >> Attempted reinstalls of NetBSD-5 have all obviously > >> failed. > > > > Indeed, downgrading is usually more problematic, postinstall not being > > of much use in this case > > Yeah, this is why I have a separate partition for /home for user data. I > copy off the etc files and start over, newfs-ing system partitions.
I've no backup of /etc on this system so although it's now booting NetBSD-6_BETA2 and I can see that not much data has gone missing most of the contents of /etc were somehow deleted. As I mentioned NetBSD-6 was giving problems, one of which is I can't use tne either of the distribution cd's. I've manage to get back to being able to boot NetBSD-6 by fist booting from a NetBSD-5 cd and copying from an incomplete archive of /etc then swapping to a netbsd-kernel. My backup mirror and another system have both had hdd failures. cheers David > -- > Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com > BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte