On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:42:08 -0500, Mental Patient wrote: [...]
> Last time I broke libc, I fixed it by booting off my rescue > (knoppix) cd. Mounted all the filesystems under > /mnt/debian. It looked like > > /mnt/debian > /mnt/debian/boot > /mnt/debian/usr > /mnt/debian/var > > etc... > > I used knoppix to download the libc6 deb and copied it to the root > filesystem (/mnt/debian) of the hosed installation. > > I then cd'd into /mnt/debian and did the following: ar x > PACKAGE.deb That left 2 files, data.tar.gz and > control.tar.gz. I untared data.tar.gz and rebooted. Does knoppix come with a working dpkg? If it does you can also you dpkg -x PACKAGE.deb target_directory > It worked, I was fine. Just to be sure, I did an apt-get > --reinstall install libc6 to make sure everything was updated > (package info, control scripts, etc). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
