Replacing Deleted Porteus Start-up File/Files
Posted: 21 Feb 2016, 00:09
Greetings!
I pruned the Mint programs off a working flash drive that was previous installed with Mint 14 then installed Porteus 3.1 which ran okay with Mint home folder intact and functional till I decided to "prune" a few more residual Mint files and folders to make more disk space and when I rebooted the startup screen stopped with:
cp: can't stat '/union/sbin/init: no such file or directory.
So I guess I pruned just a little too much. Am I proper in assuming that I can replace the deleted file or folder with one from another Porteus flash if I knew exactly what to copy, or can I reinstall Porteus on the same drive to replace what missing vital Porteus files without fear of the home folder or new app and screen defaults being overwritten? This isn't a super-emergency, but just for learning's sake I'd like to know if such remedies would work. Thanks!
Thanks for any assist!
Jim in NYC
I pruned the Mint programs off a working flash drive that was previous installed with Mint 14 then installed Porteus 3.1 which ran okay with Mint home folder intact and functional till I decided to "prune" a few more residual Mint files and folders to make more disk space and when I rebooted the startup screen stopped with:
cp: can't stat '/union/sbin/init: no such file or directory.
So I guess I pruned just a little too much. Am I proper in assuming that I can replace the deleted file or folder with one from another Porteus flash if I knew exactly what to copy, or can I reinstall Porteus on the same drive to replace what missing vital Porteus files without fear of the home folder or new app and screen defaults being overwritten? This isn't a super-emergency, but just for learning's sake I'd like to know if such remedies would work. Thanks!
Thanks for any assist!
Jim in NYC