On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +0000, Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot
> >image you get in the Debian 2.1 single CD.
Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtbt at
http://www.toms.net/rb/.
> >
> >I tried copying /lib/* and /etc/ld.so.cache from the rescue disk to
> >the hard drive. Now the kernel can find init, but it still gets an
> >error loading shared libraries - undefined symbol: stderr - and panics
> >(unsurprisingly). Same with rescue 2.2.12 kernel and my 2.4.18.
> >
> Am I right in thinking that all ldconfig does is update the symlinks
> and /etc/ld.so.c[ache|onf]? If so, isn't all I need to know, what is
> the binary data at the beginning of /etc/ld.so.cache, and how to
> calculate it?
From man page:
ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run-time
linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the direc-
tories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and
in the trusted directories (/usr/lib and /lib). ldconfig checks the
header and file names of the libraries it encounters when determining
which versions should have their links updated. ldconfig ignores sym-
bolic links when scanning for libraries.
> I'm also limited in my ability to experiment because the Linux box is
> too broken to run tar/gzip so I can't unpack debs from my CD to
> restore stuff from. ar still works, and WinZip can handle .tar.gz
> format, so it's sort of possible with a lot of rebooting to swap OS.
> Is there a Win98 archiver that can unpack debs?
You can unpack debs with ar. See
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9
Alternative: you can download package tar files from subdirectories of
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/ and use tar to unpack. You can
search for specific packages at
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. There will be a link to tar
file on the packsage html page also.
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