updating existing partially hosed but working system.
I am building a new system. This time around, it seems *almost* (tm)
to have worked---but I have to send in the motherboard. Meanwhile
perhaps I can prepare the existing system for the eventuality.
I have been running this system as partially crippled for several
months; because of the small disk space, etc., I cannot afford to do
anything potentially risky on this machine AT LEAST until I get it
talking to the new machine and back it all up.
Not the biggest problem w/ the existing system is that I deleted the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/status, etc. files. Since then I have done a few
lightweight upgrades. CAN I INSTALL OVER THIS SYSTEM SAFELY USING THE
1.3 or pre-1.3 disks?
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM is that compiling has been hosed for months, and I
consequently gave up months ago on packages I have been compiling
regularly for a couple years. Part of the problem seems to be I
copied the include files from a linux kernel over a system that had
incompatible, older (3.0.x) libraries---I gave up on the whole
adventure months ago, waiting until I have a clean install on a system
that can take it (ie., more than 200MB disk space). I have posted to
this list many times about this confusing problem about kernel
headers. I have read many postings, and tried to make sense of it
all. But in my mind, it has so far been a confusing and vexing problem.
I even installed more recent libc5 development versions, but the
compiling problem wouldn't go away. WILL UPGRADING TO 1.3 debian make
any difference?
I should say that even though I have been using debian linux
EXCLUSIVELY since before the great a.out to ELF debacle, I may be
forced to abandon ship for another distribution on my new system
unless I can make sense of the header issue, as well as debianized
sources. You might just say that I am clueless. It's one more level
of kludges I don't need to deal with.
Thanks for the many times I have received helpful advice on this
list.
Alan Davis
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