On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything,
I agree. > but if you really want to the ar command (which is built > into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember > correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get your hands on > dpkg...deb, unpack it, and manually move files into their > proper locations. You may also need to do the same for some > lib...deb files in order to get dpkg working. Do we have to move everything manually? dpkg -i has following option -R | --root=dir | --admindir=dir | --instdir=dir to enable chroot install. Not that I used this. Was anyone succesful using this? I am curious if there is any how-to for this kind of disastor recovery. :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +