On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:33:42PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote:
>
> >Would it be a bad idea to just do a
> >tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz
> >from my root directory?
> >
> >I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this
> >throw off or otherwise i
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote:
Would it be a bad idea to just do a
tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz
from my root directory?
I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this
throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway?
I really don't know, I am not familiar
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote:
Yup, what you described is exactly what happened on my system. Gives
new meaning to "unstable," eh?
yeah, i was rather horrified :( especially this close to freeze, i
suppose i should get around to writing that bug report (i discovered
this after the 3rd re
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato
> boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong
> permissions:
>
Would it be a bad idea to just do a
tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz
from my root
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato
> boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong
> permissions:
> ...
> now hopefully this is not what happened to you and you can check to
>
On 30/12/99 matt garman wrote:
I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method.
For some odd reason, I cannot "su" to root as a normal user, it
always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a
different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password,
no problem.
Also,
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