> I seem to have somehow have broken my system, and want a minimal way to ix it; > Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk, > or dselect, or ... ? > > I.e. to say "install base" from a rescue, will this do an add-only refresh > of files from the archives, or will it wipe out what I have and start over? > if your only problem is getting into the system, then you might try "linux single" or "linux init=/bin/bash" (the hardcore variant) at the lilo promt.
if you want to restore config files, you might try, what i already suggested to somebody: get the boot-floppies base archive (the 15 meg tgz file), dive into it with some neat archive browser like mc and extract the necessary config files (or extract just everything, but this is probably not a good idea). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
