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Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine



On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> 
>  BTW, you'll need to manually download grep and sed packages, since they
> live in /bin!  :(  Or you could do it with perl.

or if you can boot from the floppies/cd and have the base2_2.tgz file
you can extract just /bin which will get you most of the no-duh
stuff.  (probably 90% of whats missing from /bin) from there you can
use your example to find any remaining broken pacakges.  

to do this run:

zcat base2_2.tgz | tar -xvf - ./bin

in your root filesystem, which you can mount on /mnt (from the boot
floppy) like so:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /mnt

hdaX being your root partition.  

note i haven't tried this with busybox tar, im not sure if it supports
the selective extraction or not.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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