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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!asuacad!aubxg
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Saturday, 2 Jan 1993 12:56:54 MST
- From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93002.125654AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: shlib in /usr/spool/ftp
- References: <92364.145827AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> <1342@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- (Sorry I can't quote other people in my reply. I've not yet had a
- chance to put a newsreader on A/UX, so I'm stuck with a rather
- primitive one on VM/CMS.)
-
- Well, /shlib is there now, but I've reformatted the disk and re-installed
- A/UX--but more on that later.
-
- What I did do remove ~/ftp/shlib was rm -r shlib (from ~/ftp); it
- walked down the directory tree, asked me if I wanted to override
- protection for a few files, and that was all she wrote. Even ls wouldn't
- work.
-
- For whatever reason, the installer wouldn't even recognize the root
- file system, even after I removed the partition and put it back. What
- finally worked was to put the drive in a borrowd 950 (with 36M RAM and
- an external 1.2 GB in addition to the 400 MB internal--I was *very*
- reluctant to let it go), install A/UX on that machine, dump my user
- file system to the internal HD on the 950, initialize my HD,
- re-install A/UX on that, dump my file system back, and then close
- up all the boxes.
-
- It wasn't so much a disaster as a hassle, and a big one at that. I
- had a recent backup, so I was able to work without fear, and I was
- able to restore things without needing it; I didn't, however, have
- a backup of any software, and that was all on the root partition.
- Now, I've got an extra partion, mounted at /usr/local, in which I'm
- putting *all* added software, everthing from ghostscript to PageMaker.
- With luck, I'll have room on my backups for both that an my users
- partition.
-
- (Looking over that paragraph, it might give the impression that I've
- lost all my software--which isn't the case. I've got original and
- backup floppies for all commercial software, and everything else I
- use I've gotten from the 'net. That doesn't mean, however, that I'm
- having fun swapping floppies and burning CPU cycles putting everything
- back on.)
-
- b&
-