On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 16:00:06 -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > I'm not saying removing libc6 was a smart idea. I want to know what to do > to get my machine back? I've got a boot floppy that I'm hoping works (it's > at home and I'm at work as I type this). Assuming I can boot the machine, > is it possible to recover to a point where I can install the latest > version of libc6???
Assuming the .deb of libc6 is still on your system (in /var/cache/apt/archives/), you might try booting from your rescue disk, switch to VC2 where you have a shell, mount your regular filesystem(s) under /mnt and try something like dpkg-deb --x /mnt/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6*deb /mnt ldconfig -r /mnt and then try booting to it. If it works, install the .deb again, this time using dpkg, so that your package database becomes consistent again. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig