On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, george sollish wrote:

> I apologize if this appears twice, but in addition to this problem, I'm
> having firewall/ISP issues as well.
> 
> Last night I downloaded the tgz files for base and kern and (1st
> mistake) installed them on usr/opt (to unload the / partition).  When I
> went to upgrade from hard disk of course the /usr partition is
> unmounted, and I aborted the install (2nd mistake).
> 
> Now I can't boot the old 1.4 or resume the 1.4.1 upgrade since my old
> /etc has been copied to /etc.old.  Is there any way to copy it back

You mean like, boot from floppy, utils->escape to shell, mount your hd
somewhere, "mv etc etc.new; mv etc.old etc"? Sure!

sysinst will mount / on /mnt, and /usr on /mnt2, so after you unmount
your / and /usr, and exit back to the installer, the path for "install
from mounted filesystem" will be /mnt1/opt/...