Being `well and truly up the creek' on a 7300
Dave Brower
daveb at rtech.UUCP
Sat Nov 16 19:20:15 AEST 1985
> In article <2200 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> >One of the most, er, `interesting' things that can happen to a root
> >file system is to lose /dev (have it turn into an ordinary file or
> >soemthing)...
>
> ...out /dev & /bin, but still had /etc and /usr. Using /etc/mknod, I was..
A distressing thing can happen on the Unix PC following a graceless
shutdown: Lose the shared library in /lib/shlib. When you reboot,
*nothing* works. There's no usefull error message, and all the tiny
little executables Convergent, er, AT&T delivers go, "Accck-pfffft."
It's fun shuffling things around off of the boot floppy to the HD in
order to get to the point where it is possible to recover a copy.
-dB
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