Re: Problem installing packages

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 11/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:15:01 GMT

    In article <11oehj01il47893@corp.supernews.com>,
    Robert Kopp <koppr@hevanet.com> wrote:
    >Bill Vermillion wrote:
    >
    >.
    >>
    >> I just cd to var and perform mv tmp tmp-dist, then I just do the
    >> symlink. On a running system I'll shut down [if possible] whatever
    >> is using that directory. mv [rename] the directory, make the
    >> symlink, and then move to the renamed directory and move all files
    >> to the directory on the other partition.
    >>
    >>>ln -s /usr/tmp /var/tmp

    >I suppose one could do something like this with FreeSBIE? The
    >partitions on the target filesystem are mounted read-only by
    >default, but they can be re-mounted. I think it's desirable to
    >have such a CD in the event that changes in an installed system
    >will not allow it to boot for repairs, but it also ensures that
    >the mounted system is not performing any operations.

    >Windows XP users are out of luck with this strategy, since a
    >bootable CD is not available and no other OS can write to NTFS
    >properly.

    But there are systems that will read NTFS. I had my XP crap out -
    couldn't read the Documents directory and therefore it started
    dumping memory. How stupid is that - one directory takes down a
    system.

    But I recovered all except that directory, and the important files
    were backed up.

    I used the Knoppix Linux distribution. I mounted the NTFS
    partition, and then depending on sizes, I'd tar up a directory that
    was small enought to fit in the RAM disk on Knoppix and then ftp
    it to the FreeBSD machines I have on my home network.

    For large instances I'd move the file one-at-time.

    If you are running FreeBSD the second CD is a live system from
    which you can reboot and repair a broken system. I've had to use
    it exactly twice and it was back in the 2.8 and/or 3.1 era.

    No need to use a Freesbie disk if you have the bootable/live CD
    that matches the OS version you are running.

    Bill 

    -- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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