On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything,
I agree.
> but if you really want to the ar command (which is built
> into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember
> correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get your hands on
> dpkg...deb, unpack it, and manually move files into their
> proper locations. You may also need to do the same for some
> lib...deb files in order to get dpkg working.
Do we have to move everything manually? dpkg -i has following option
-R | --root=dir | --admindir=dir | --instdir=dir
to enable chroot install.
Not that I used this. Was anyone succesful using this? I am curious if
there is any how-to for this kind of disastor recovery. :-)