HELP - dpkg status file was lost

[Richard Brooks]

HELP !   All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch.   After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . .   I lost the status file for dpkg/dselect/apt-get.   Now - I cannot do any dselect/apt-get/dpkg operations without a segmentation fault (which doesn't need a reset)  or it tells me to run dpkg --configure -a to fix it - which won't work.   Is there any way to re-make the status file ?   No quips about reinstalling the lot, that already looks likely lol   I deleted the files in lost&found - I suspect that may have been a fatal error.   Please advise with a solution (if you all can) - I'd *just* gotten the XMicro GeForce 5200 to work, audio was fine (except permission denied for non root user) - In general was in the midst of actually learning something new, and now I am majorly stuck.   Thanks in Advance, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ps :    How can I get it to see the whole 1Gb of RAM ? pss :  kernel option on boot ?  only sees about 890Mb or so