[rescue] solaris missing /usr question

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Jeffrey Nonken 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?

   That'd certainly work.

     -Dave

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