From: Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hokstad@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T03:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: I lost /bin

On May 22, 10:05 am, Albert Schlef <albertsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> YEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!
>
> I did it! I'm back! :-)
[...]
> I lost 'cp' and 'rm' too. Fortunately for me, I had gazillions of
> terminals open with Midnight Commander. I copied the most basic commands
> from an old Fedora partition that was mounted (it's always mounted, so I
> didn't have to have 'mount'). Its 'bash' didn't work on my ubuntu (it
> was compiled against termcap), so I logged in to where my website is
> hosted, becuase it uses Debian, and taken 'bash' (which serves as 'sh'
> too) from there.

Now that you have successfully recovered is the time to read this
classic: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.telecom/msg/b0f6e6d80da01121

Vidar