Upgrading to Sarge from Potato
Hi all,
I had a potato in a Pentium 100, 80MB RAM, two hd (one
200MB, the other 20GB), one CDROM (4x), and modem slow
connection to internet. Of course the BIOS does not detect
the 20GB hd and the CDROM is not bootable directly.
I managed (somehow) to upgrade to Sarge (build October 8th).
That is using dpkg (to install basic libraries, apt-get,
...). Then using apt-get to upgrade all the system, and it
was OK.
The problem is that I tried then to fix some broken packages
(anna, and other udeb packages) ... I should read the
READMEs files and documentation !!!. So I installed those
packages and now many important files are corrupted
(/etc/passwd, /etc/inittab, /etc/fstab, /etc/shadow, and who
knows ...) so I cannot even boot the system.
I fixed the /etc/passwd /etc/fstab /etc/shadow with an old
(potato) rescue floppy, but I cannot fix the problem.
Does any know how many files I should fix? Is there any copy
of them in the hd?
If the above questions are bad for me, even I could
reinstall Sarge from scratch (I have /home in another
partition!). How can I do that???? I tried with a floppy
with SBM and I could boot from CDROM, but the installer does
not detect the 20GB hd, where I should install Sarge. Also
the installer does not detect my keyboard (Spanish), and the
computer hangs often.
Suggestions ... ???
Thanks for your help,
Wenceslao
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