freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did.  Since I 
don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade to 
a newer version of freebsd?

On Sunday 27 November 2005 16:42, ebm wrote:
> After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did.  Since I
> don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade
to
> a newer version of freebsd?
Try this:

cd /usr/sbin

./sysinstall

then install the minimal binary package

afterwords to a cvsup/make buildworld to get current again

-Mike

On 11/27/05, ebm <ebm-freebsd-stable@swervinghead.com>
wrote:
> After I deleted this very valuable file I realized what I did.  Since I
> don't have a old boot disk laying around is my only option to upgrade
to
> a newer version of freebsd?
Unfortunately after FreeBSD 4 all of the binaries needed to boot are
dynamically linked, so you are not going to be able to reboot the
server, and you're not going to want to log out.

There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a
statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including
'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a floppy
somewhere
else you may be able to copy it into place with these utilities.

http://dpk.net/libc.so.5

That's a copy of libc from a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 system.

Alternately, you could try installing the minimum binary package as
suggested by Michael (however you'll need to use /stand/sysinstall
since it is static)

Cool, I'll try it later on today. I was able to copy the file to my
server from a via a nfs connection that was established before my
blunder.
I kept running into the problem of not having the ability to cp anything
since cp used that library file.  If the /rescue works then I'll be backup
up and
running.  When this is all fixed I think I'll just upgrade 6.0 since I
already downloaded the iso files.

Thanks everybody for the help!
 
 On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:21:16PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller
wrote:
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:21:16 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
> To: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
> Cc: ebm <ebm-freebsd-stable@swervinghead.com>,
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5
> 
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of
> David Kirchner, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a
> > statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including
> > 'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a
floppy somewhere
> > else you may be able to copy it into place with these utilities.
> 
> Note that it also has mount_nfs and rcp, so if you've got another box
> handy 'nearby', you can get creative like that.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
> Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
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