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Re: hosed installation - starting over



Peter wrote:

I've somehow completely hosed my Debian stable system, and I don't seem even to have a 'base-config' package any more. It boots, but no X server. Also, I don't have a working CD-ROM. Where do I go from here, presuming I want to install stable?

Duh. Never mind. A few minutes' unpanicked thinking showed that it was just an X server misconfiguration (I had entered the wrong mouse specs). Running:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

solved everything. Sorry for the noise.



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