RE: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86
>===== Original Message From "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> =====
>on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
(anime@MailAndNews.com) wrote:
>> I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for
>> debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a
>> rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system
>> unusuable? Anyone have a nice little tar ball or perhaps a good guide
>> for getting them again? I tried to look for a file for unstable like
>> the base install one in potato for installs and get them like that but
>> unstable appears not to have one :(
>
>Restore them from your backups. You've got backups, right?
>
>OK, you don't have backups.
correct sir
>
> - Get your package list ('/usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections > file').
will that work without /bin? I am without tar so installing dosn't work
>
> - Back up /home and /usr/local. Just in case. You do have a backup
> system, don't you (tape, removable media, networked storage).
the most I have is floppies right now
>
> - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive for $400 and a
> handful of tapes. Or a CDW or CDRW system. But I'd prefer tape.
$400 USD cost more than my computer cost
>
> - Reinstall a base Debian system. Leave your non-system partitions
> alone (you *have* partitioned your system so that /usr/local and
> /home are isolated from the rest of your partitions, right?
actually no I didn't the whole partitioning scheme really sucks for computers
without access to a bigger hard disk than a 1.02GB that I have
plus there is little room to expand if you want later by virtue of the fact
that you have something set in stone
>
> - Read in your former package list and restore your system to its
> prior state.
I have a number of third parts applications that are difficult to obtain (I
have to get them on floppies and such and split them with split) and would
take weeks. The only cd drive is on my other computer that will not detect
under linux and I don't have a direct network connection to the machine.
>
>From my own system, files under /bin come from the following packages.
>You may be able to reinstall from these:
>
> afio
> bash
> console-tools
> cpio
> debianutils
> ed
> fdflush
> fileutils
> grep
> gzip
> hostname
> login
> mount
> netkit-ping
> net-tools
> pdksh
> procps
> psmisc
> sash
> sed
> setserial
> shellutils
> sysvinit
> tar
> tcsh
> textutils
> util-linux
thanks that will at least help to determine what I have to get to get it
working but isn't there some sort of base install for unstable? Why dosn't
unstable have some form of install disks?
>
>Cheers.
>
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