rhaynes Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Hi, as mentioned in my previous post I have to try and do some system recovery on a machine that experienced a hard shutdown due to a power outage. It seems that / (my /dev/hde6) has been messed up. Assuming the other partitions can be mounted is it possible to run the installation disk and just have the stuff from / reinstalled. My other partitions (which hopefully are intact) are swap,home,usr,var I would like to have /var,/home left intact (/var contains web server and database stuff...) I have a backup but of course now I can think of several things which weren't backed up (for example a relatively smalled database whose directory I forgot to add to the drakbackup list...). Thanks, R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 (edited) you can just boot cd1>F1 at the slplashscreen and type expert and hit Enter and do an Upgrade choosing not to format /home and /var or whatever. Sys stuff (rpm files) in /var will probably be replaced. Edited December 29, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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