On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 04:52:17PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> I just reinstalled a potato system 3 days ago using the 2.2.3 potato 
> boot floppies and the base system was installed with massively wrong 
> permissions:
> 

Would it be a bad idea to just do a
    tar xzvpf base2_2.tgz
from my root directory?

I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this
throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway?

MG

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Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"And through the window in the wall
 Come streaming in on sunlight wings
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