On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:10:44AM -0400, george sollish wrote:
> Yesterday I downloaded the base and kern tgz files for 1.4.1 and installed them in /usr/opt, a directory I use to keep from loading /.  Obviously this is a mistake, since when I tried to perform the upgrade I was in single user mode with /usr unmounted.  I aborted the install (2nd mistake).  Now my old /etc directory has been moved to /etc.old where boot can no longer find it.  How to I get back to where I was (a bootable 1.4)?

Just boot single-user and then:
fsck -p
mount -a
rm -rf /etc && mv /etc.old /etc

(this will also mount /usr, so you will be able to perform upgrade).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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