Re: Those things you swore you would never do
Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> writes:
> heres the story...
> I need samba....the samba package I got said it needed libc6...so I
> tried
> to install libc6
> it said libc5 was the problem and it couldn't oinstall...
> so rather than thinking...I found the dpkg options to tell it to remove
> libc5...and in an expediant fashion...which it happily did
> then I found I could do nothing...wlel no..I could "cd" and "echo *" to
> emulate ls
> and I could logout
> can I save this system?
> I have a boot floppy..and all my original 8 debian install disks...
> any suggestions?
> -Steve
Ok - here's what you need to do:
Get a copy of the libc5 that's in bo - say,
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/base/libc5_5.4.33-6.deb
Put this on an extra floppy and boot your machine with the install
set (which also doubles as a rescue set). Go through the menus, being
careful never to go through the step about partitioning your disk nor
through the step about initializing your linux partitions - choose the
alternate route of "mounting a previously initialized partition."
Once you've mounted all your disk partitions through the menus, before
doing anything else, hit alt-F2 to get to the screen with an actual
prompt. Then, insert the floppy with the libc5 on it, and:
mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /floppy
/target/usr/bin/dpkg --root=/target -i /floppy/libc5*deb
Hopefully, this will succeed and you can then hit alt-f1 to get back
to the menus and choose the appropriate menu item to reboot your
system.
Then, before you THINK about upgrading to libc6, read the libc5-libc6
mini-howto, at
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
There are indeed samba packages available for libc5; you don't need to
go libc6 just to do samba. (and given how big a pain it is to convert
to libc6, you'll probably want to wait).
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