/etc/rc?.d directories missing on potato install

[Jameson Burt <jameson@monumental.com>]

Last week I installed potato on a new computer.
Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages.
After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited 
prematurely.  One possible reason would be that /var was limited to the
size of /, 128MB, so apt-get may have crashed trying to pull down 700MB
into 128MB of space [I had 10GB of space on /usr/local, which I later 
linked /var/cache into].

I reinstalled sysvinit to get the /etc/rc?.d directories;
however, reinstalling other packages like "apache" are not
creating the links from /etc/rc?.d into /etc/init.d .
I could make the links myself, but they have a certain number sequence,
so I had best let the Debian installation create this links.

Does anyone have an idea how to get proper links back into /etc/rc?.d

Thank you, 
Jameson Burt