[rescue] solaris missing /usr question

Jeffrey Nonken jeff_work at nonken.net
Sat Mar 22 17:25:51 CST 2003


On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:21:51 -0600, "Joshua D. Boyd"
<jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net> wrote:

> I miss typed something in my vfstab file, so now my disk with /usr on it
> is mounting in the wrong place.  So, I have a /oldusr, and a /user, but
> no /usr.  Well, this would be fine, except that I can't seem to do
> anything without /usr.  All I really need is to be able to edit out one
> little e in my vfstab file, but I can't seem to do anything other than
> cd and pwd now.  mv, cp, alias, and most importantly vi all seem to be
> dynamically linked so since /usr/lib doesn't exist, they won't work.
> Eg.
> # /oldusr/bin/cp
> cp: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions other than reinstalling everything?

I gather that you can't temporarily mount the drive with vfstab as a data
drive on another system, edit the vfstab file, and then put it back?

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