Re: more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!! (fwd)
"G. Kapetanios" wrote:
>I would really appreciate any help.
>For people in and around London if this doesn't work out I am willing to
>pay to
>restore my machine
>
Are you in London or in Cambridge? Surely there's someone in Cambridge who
can help? If I needed to, I could get to London in 2 hours; Cambridge
would take longer.
>I have manage to salvage a minimal system after accidentally deleting my
>root partitioon. I tried to install debian stable but it did not work.
>I did floppy disk installation butfloppy relaiobility does not seem to be
>the problem. Let me explain why I have the debian disks on an unharmed
>partiotin which I can access. However the file base2.0_... produces an
>errror
This is one area where the installation process falls down: if there are
any errors they are all too likely to get overwritten by the next bit of
fancy screen stuff; there should be an option for a pure dumb screen
install, so that anything that appears on the screen is left there until it
scrolls off the top.
>on my system it goes away too fast to read it. Obviously the same error
>appear with floppies even when I re-downloaded the floppies from the net.
>I am using july 21 1998 floppies is there a problem with thith those ?
>
>Anyway I installed a debian 1.0 ( yes !!) from some old floppies
>The installation went ok. I have the distribution in a
>another partiton and I tried to use dselect but the Package file had a
>problem and dpkg does not work. I can solve the problem only if I could
>run program from my /usr partiton which I can access
>This is the second problem I can see the binary
>I can cat the binary but I can't run it
># /usr/bin/less
>/usr/bin/less: No such file or dicrectory
This is not what you get for a missing file:
$ /usr/bin/junk
bash: /usr/bin/junk: No such file or directory
I wonder if it is looking for a shared library that you haven't loaded? That
isn't the message I see for a missing shared library, but things may have
been different for that version.
If you were running version 2.0 before you lost your root partition, all your
standard commands will be compiled against libc6. Now you have installed 1.1,
you don't have libc6, so the newer commands cannot run. This is a double
bind: you cannot run dpkg (libc6) until you have installed libc6, but you
cannot install libc6 without dpkg.
It sounds as if you have got to reinstall with 2.0 or later. I cannot
make out from your message whether your problem with 2.0 is during the
installation process. Can you boot from a CD? or put your hard disk into
a machine that can?
If you cannot install 2.0 at all, you will need to get hold of the shared
libraries that are needed by all the programs you want to run. For dpkg,
these are:
$ ldd /usr/bin/dpkg
libdpkg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdpkg.so.0 (0x4000c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40027000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
You will need someone else with a working 2.0 system to copy these from, or
else extract them from the appropriate .deb files onto some working machine
(remember that a .deb file is an ar archive that contains a tar archive of
the software.)
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