Daniel Whelan wrote: > > OK folks...it looks like I've got myself a bit of a problem. Suffice to say, > the libc.so.6 on one of my boxes got wiped out. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere > near the box, and only have a semi-computer-literate "remote hands" at the > location, without any boot disks (well, there was one, but it doesn't boot > anymore). So, I figure the best solution is to make some sort of boot disk > with just enough to boot up, mount the filesystem, and either copy libc.so.6 > from a floppy or download it from a machine. Then I could walk him through > creating a floppy from a disk image, and all would be well. Any suggestions > on this?
Do your remote hands have a dos/windows or linux machine nearby? Use tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/ (shouldn't be too hard for a semi-computer-literate to use) Boot with it, mount the filesystem. Copy libc.so.6 from another machine onto floppies (might have to use 'split' and put it on multiple disks. Tomsrtbt has cat, tar and gzip, so putting it back together shouldn't be a problem). Copy libc.so.6 to the filesystem. ...and Bob's your uncle. Matthew
