fresh debian install (was: /var/lib gone)
well. what's the recommended way of installing the newest set of
packages available to debian? has somebody somewhere an iso image
of the unstable tree or do i have to install potato's diskset and
then download each and every package i want from woody separately?
i can't do anything automatically because my debian box has a 56kb
ppp0 connection and a machine on a T1 line i use occasionally has
NT on it. or does somebody have any scripts to use with regular
m$-ftp which do some automated downloading of requested packages?
just don't want to go back to slink. as i begun using debian, slink
was just declared 'stable'. and my home computer hasn't had any
problems with bleeding edges yet... (not that debian bleeds :o)
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents
> > > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am
> > > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the
> > > only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can
> > > somebody tell me the normal subtrees of /var/lib and i might be
> > > able to fix it manually?
>
> I think it sounds like reinstall time.
>
> > try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once
> > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro.
>
> Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work.
> Probably.
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regards,
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