Well, my solution is about the same. Except you're using the Woody CD, I'm using the images from the ESIEE people to perform a netinstall. It's about the same. There's probably an option in apt-get to tell it where to put the libc6 (something like a prefix). Dunno the option, sorry. Another solution is to chroot your /mnt. So /mnt actually becomes /. After that, just mount your CD rom, add it to your sources.list and install the working libc6 from the CD. Instead of installing the libc6 from CD, you might want to compile a 2.4.19 kernel, which is also possible in your chrooted environment. I do this all the time when my system gets broken after an apt-get upgrade.
Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin-�ric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "kenneth westelinck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: Re: recovering from a failed libc6 upgrade On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, kenneth westelinck wrote: > What about netbooting a lif image from the ESIEE people? > http://pateam.esiee.fr/cd-images/lifimages > - exit the installation > - mount your local disk > - chroot to the disk > - install/compile newer kernel > Should work ;) Come again? :) Booting from the Woody install CD, in rescue mode, was my first reaction. However, when booting in that mode, init is executed right away. Since just about everything in Debian depends upon a working libc6, that fails. My second idea was to boot the CD in install mode, but only execute the keyboard selection step at the begining, then switch immediately to console and mount the / partition of my boot disk to /mnt. Great, except, how do I install the libc6 that came on the install CD, over the failed new one that's on the hard-disk? -- Martin-�ric Racine "Kas sa tahad mind? - Nej!!! �r du en idiot?!!" http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/ Tallinn, Eesti; Espoo, Suomi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
