Completely SNAFUd my system [SOLVED]

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

I hate to embarrass myself, but I unmerged coreutils. Yes, emerge told me this was a no-no. Did I listen? No-no.

The threads I found elsewhere in this forum weren't working for me, so I booted up a livecd, thinking to download a stage tarball and unpack it. For some reason, I ran out of space, so I deleted the /usr directory.

SNAFUd again.

I cannot just start over. I have files on the computer I've nuked. I need to at least get my files out, and I don't know how.

Any advice on either fixing my little Ferndando Poo crisis, or advice on how to get my files off this machine, would be GREATLY appreciated. I mean, I will bake you cookies and rub your feet.

Ok, I won't rub your feet, but I'm good for the cookies if you ever come to town.
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject:

If you can't access the files by mounting the filesystems, it's probably more worth it to give up

There are ways to undelete on ext2/3, but they aren't very good - give them a try, though.

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Maliwik · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

If I were you, I'd boot up the livecd and then mount your root partition (and then any other partitions you used excluding swap) and copy your needed files over to a flash drive or something (assuming you have one). If you don't have a flash drive, you could always make a small partition and mount it and copy over your files to that partition for safekeeping. Then you could reinstall Gentoo and copy them back over.

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audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

*Whew*

Files are all still there. Got my partition mounted.

I don't have a flash drive, and I have more files than will fit on one anyway.

How can I get mount working with CIFS on the livecd? I can mount a shared folder that's on another computer and copy them over. I keep getting return code -22 for mount -t cifs //192.168.1.101/folder mountpoint, so I assume this means CIFS isn't an option unless I do something.
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Maliwik · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

I'm not sure if mount-cifs is included with the livecd (it might be). This is a link to the manual page for mount.cifs.

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poly_poly-man · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:30 am Post subject:

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

I got sysresccd and was able to cp my files to a network drive. I'm now starting over with 2008 beta and KDE instead of Gnome - why not?

Thanks, poly_poly-man and Maliwik. I appreciate it.
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Maliwik · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

You're quite welcome!

Also, make sure you put [Solved] or something similar in the title of your first post so people know that the problem is solved =)

--Mike
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