On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, fergus wrote:
> > The easiest way, however, is to look at the setup.log file
> > from your "polished" installation (if that's available).
>
> Thank you. After
>
> grep "\.bz2" /var/etc/setup*
>
> followed by combinations of sort, uniq and simple editing, I have
> recovered /etc/setup/installed.db correct in every detail, as far as I
> can tell. Thanks so much.
You must have a *really* polished installation, as mine doesn't have a
/var/etc/setup (or a /var/etc, for that matter). But hey, whatever
works... :-)
Igor
P.S. I think you meant /var/log/setup*...
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