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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.

-- 
regards,
odt // aim for the moon, if you miss you may hit a star


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