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James Miller wrote:
>
> There were tons of errors, which I told it to just go ahead 
> and fix.  The final result was that the /root dir is (and 
> possibly some others are) missing.  Alot of fragments were 
> saved to /lost+found by e2fsck and I suppose I might find
> some of the missing items by rooting around there.  When I 
> try to boot the system, I get a kernel panic 

Very bad.

> and a message to the effect "init not found."  

I doubt whether replacing /sbin/init will fix it.  I suspect
the kernel is not finding init because the filesystem is stuffed.

> My basic question with regard to this is: is it worth trying 
> to rescue this instalation, 
 
Probably not.

> or should I just focus on saving data and reinstalling?  

The most important things to save are the configuration files
in /etc and /root (and /home/whatever, if you configured a user 
account).  The eznet configuration file is in /var/eznet.
The icewm configuration files are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm.

Cheers,
Steven