Dear Debian friends, in a fit of abysmal stupidity I manage to break my 1.3.1 system. I wanted to upgrade to netbase-netstd 3.0 and FORCED an un-install of libreadline2 to install libreadline2g ... now my bash is broken and god knows what else ... locked out of home ...
Only after I discovered the libc5-to-libc6-miniHOWTO .... Do I have some chance of rescuing my system ??? * OPTION A (preferred) I tried booting with an install floppy, escape to the shell and mount my /dev/hda1 disk. On the same HDD I have a Win95 partition on which I downloaded the packages described in the libc5-to-libc6 HOWTO. Unfortunately with the boor floppy I used (an install floppy) dpkg-deb does not seem to work and I cannot manage to mount the non Linux FS partition. Is there some other boot disks which could help me more ?? If I could do both things, could I succeed re-applying the packages in the order specified by the HOWTO ??? * OPTION B In alternative I would still be happy if at least I could recover my /home (smallish), /root and /etc directories and do a complete 1.3.1 re-install. Would need to save these files on a few floppies. Problem is that I booted with an install disk, mounted my Linux HDD partition but could not use tar ... could also accomodate using cpio which works, but could not feed it all filenames under /etc or /home since neither find . -name .... nor ls -lR do work ... Any bright ideas ????? Thank you very very much for any help you will provide. Bob Alexander - Rome - Italy PS Please direct all insults directly to my e-mail 8-> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
