Re: diskcrash -> /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash -> /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
hello, > > 3.) got a list of installed packages from /usr/doc/* directories. > should be possible to do this with dpkg --get-selections, which can of > course then just be redirected into a file: > dpkg --get-selections > filename > and then > dpkg --set-selections < filename Ok, I haven´t tired

Re: diskcrash -> /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash -> /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Will Lowe
> 2.) installing the base system via the rescue floppies I've several times managed to hose my /etc directory, once while trying to install a tape drive so I could back the same directory up ... I generally install the base system onto a spare partition and copy the /etc directory from it into th

diskcrash -> /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash -> /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I would politely ask you to pose your question in english as this is an > english-language list. Oh, I´m sorry. This message should have gone to the german debian user list. Nevertheless, the problem was, that after a diskcrash my /var direct