/opt was delete, by accident

[hitw]

/opt was deleted by accident, luckly, someone tared it up. But after /opt was deleted, there are no commands left so I couldnt untar. Then the machine was rebooted, and when it comes up, it boots but the kernel panics, so I can boot by floppy, but when I try to mount slash I get a error that the disk is bad? shouldnt be, so I mount it -r (read only) and it mounts, I can see the tar ball, but I cant untar it because the mounted device is read only? Is there anyway out of this? I have a identical machine, should I make a cpio backup of it and clobbler the hard disk and cpio over it? Or is there some way of mounting the disk to write and untaring it?? This is a very old machine SCO 5.0.5

Thanks

 

[PHV]

When boot by floppy can't you fsck the hdroot filesystem and then mount it without the -r option ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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