-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 10:17 pm, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Gavin! > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:00:22PM +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > >Today this file became corrupt, which I suspect was a hard drive problem, > > as the previous Debian testing had problems and I was rebuilding this > > this morning. > > > >I deleted this and status.old thinking it was rebuilt by apt-get or > > dselect. But I found out from the #Debian channel that the install was > > screwed. > > > >Is this definitely correct? Can it not be re-created? > > See the fine Debian Reference at > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-recover-st >atus for ways to recover your selection data.
Thank you. I will have a go one more time. I might do a Knoppix knx-hdinstall for a faster install/ > Keep in mind how your backups might possibly be out of date and thus > might not reflect your true package selections. YMMV, after all. > > >I am re-installing one more time, then giving up and putting the hard > > drive in the bin. > > Don't give up, and there's very rarely the need to reinstall... ;) > That's my philosophy anyway, but I kept getting resetting ide error, hard drive not ready, so I'm pretty sure it's on the way out anyway. Just when I managed to find a 20gb hd at work :-( Once again, thank you. Gavin. - -- Regards http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//JNJgNqd7Kng8UoRAss2AKCEPdcG6H3RpVMyZbhSnb7sTX4TwACfYfXx CfyD5pGuCpw0iC+xlpctndM= =XUub -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
