Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-03-02 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, I haven't discovered yet what happend to the symlink. I may have a bad disk or the file utilities are corrupted. I tried to compile a new kernel 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 but when I try to install the modules some of the directories made as files!! make modules make modules_install make -C kernel mod

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-03-01 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Mar 01, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey scratched in indelible ink : > Another problem related to location of var. I moved it from the / > (root) to different partition and made a symlink. This link happens to > disapper when I reboot the machine then it hangs when it's looking for > /var/run and other

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-03-01 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Thanks for the help. I did it a hard way. I did a dpkg -S '/usr/bin/' > packages then produced a location/package with help of awk from the /var/state/apt/lists/*_dists_*stable*Packages Afterwards I used dpkg -i location/package where I used the Debian Sparc iso images. Then dselect / upgrade.

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-03-01 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Mar 01, Q89029292 scratched in indelible ink : > replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed > packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr > directory. > when I hosed my alpha by screwing up the partition table and lost *all* of /usr :( I grepp

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-03-01 Thread Q89029292
HI, replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr directory. Then back up. Best Regards, Peter Firmstone. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: > I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato.

DANGEROUS ?? help needed

2001-02-26 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato. There're some errors relating to the lib/ndbm and lib/anydbm. I tried to comment out these. Finally I changed the debian/rules and debian/config.debian and added to the Configure: -Ui_ndbm in the perl-5.6.0 source directory. STRANGE thing happend!!