Repair - Reinstall - Restore

[Olaf Olson]

I had a power drop here. Unfortunately, as some others have pointed out, 
the UPS doesn't always have enough juice to make it through a shutdown, 
especially since shutdown's not automatic. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS 
THREAD, with suggestions about how to make auto shutdown work.  I will 
ask the question later, about auto shutdown while on a UPS, I need to 
ask the bigger question:

How do I recover? I have several holes in the recovered disk, 
specifically, XFree86 is hosed, so no X. I can, of course, boot from the 
CD and completely reinstall, but that appears to include repartitioning, 
which will destroy everything. I don't want stuff destroyed. Also, it 
appears that samba isn't working, wither, so I can't go to other 
machines in my network and pull my data off so I can then reinstall the 
whole thing.

I thought I once saw a posting here about booting to a recovery CD, but 
I can't find that in the archives. Also, the only disk of the 6 I got 
with YDL 3.0.1 is the installation CD and it wants to go directly to 
installation.

I can boot to console only - no X, so I can run yum and the like, but 
there isn't any command like "yum 
reinstallEverythingThatIsMissingFromTheOriginalInstall" so I am really 
not certain how to go about fixing it all.

Of course, backup procedures seem to be a good preventative measure. I 
will work on that for the future and will probably post a few questions 
along that line, too. PLEASE don't reply to this post with backup 
solutions. Start a new thread if you plan on giving advice about that, 
as it makes the searches go a bit easier, when looking for things in the 
archive.

I have a G3 B&W, with 256Mb RAM, a 20 Gb drive and the stock video.

Thanks for any assistance.

Olaf