Lost my /var drive--Can I emerge system?

flashingcurser · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 34

I'm just a home user and havent made any backups -- oops. Anyway the drive that had /var on it died.

Can I simply emerge system?

I have installed a new drive -- partitioned -- made files systems -- updated fstab. I would kind of like to re-emerge my proggies and keep my config files as they are (I cant even remember where they are all at lol)

The system gives a few complaits when starting hehe, but other than that I am able to do most things.

The email and web server are toast -- and anything that needs to log craps out.

Amazingly stable linux!!! -- it still boots

Before I type "emerge system" then "emerge world" is there anything else I should know? or is this the totally wrong approch?

Please if you have any thoughts please speak up-- my wifes resume is on the server

oumpah-pah · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject:

I'm affraid it won't work, since emerge also uses stuff located in /var. Anyway, if you want to give it a shot, the appropriate command would be :

Rainmaker · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

I believe the world file is in /var...

You'll have to extract the "system" file from a livecd or something. It's somewhere in /var/db/pkg
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kallamej · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo. Please post any follow ups in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=171015
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