System crash!!! How do I recover when my disaster disk doesn't boot

Thanks in advance for the help, folks. I was just finished ftping a file to get Mosaic running when, as root, I issued this command from my /bin directory: mv lib* /temp. My intention was to move the two files I had just downloaded to a temp directory so I could then unpack them. However, this s

simple newbie question

I'm just getting Debian up and running, as my first Linux system. The install and initial boot process went well; now I'm trying to load additional packages. Dselect tells me that I am missing: /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages when I try to load additional debian packages. I'm sure this is sim