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. So I have the binaries back in the /usr/bin.
Of course I needed to download some packages separately. For example
wget to download the iso images from kernel.org.
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 directories in /var.
I need to check what's going on.
Gabor
PS.
Your methods seems easier.
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:14:35 +0800
From: Jean-Paul Blaquiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Resent-From: [email protected]
> 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 grepped the installed packages out of /var/lib/dpkg/status
into a
text file,
grep ^Package /var/lib/dpkg/status |cut -f 2 -d ' '|sort
>installed_packages
then did an:
apt-get install --reinstall `cat installed_packages`
sure it probably copied over other stuff as well, but it was quick and
painless.
/Jp... system admin^wrecoverer
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