Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition of some of the rescue disk itself (fsck) I got an ldconfig, and got it to boot again, after several false starts. I then used dpkg -i to reinstall most of the stuff in main/binary-i386/base which got most stuff working, including dselect.
I'm now using dselect to reinstall pretty much everything and get the system back into a consistent state. I have got a few errors on some packages due to /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/foo being corrupt. (eg. foo = awk) Is it permissible simply to delete these files? Will I risk breaking the whole thing again? If so, how do I restore them? TIA Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
