Re: Recovering from a Crash


W. Watson wrote:
My machine hung, and powered it down. When I rebooted, it complained and
then went about a typical root recovery. However, it failed and I did a
fsck. All came up fine, or so I thought. Upon trying vi and a cp, I got some
really screw characters on the screen. I do have a boot disk. I'd rather not
start from scratch. Is it possible to go through the CD install as an update?

Why not do a clean re-install ? Are you worried about losing data ? It
sounds to me like you need to put in a boot or live disk, mount the
offending filesystem, and use it to back up anything important pronto.

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