Re: How I fixed my trashed Debian system

1997-08-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
> OK. If this helps just one person I think it's worth typing up. I welcome > any suggestions of things I may have missed fixing or cleaning up. Thank you very much. Hmmm, this looks rather complicated and time consuming. I which there would be an easier way... I am always thinking wether it is

Re: How I fixed my trashed Debian system

1997-08-05 Thread Dima
>>Rick Macdonald wrote: >OK. If this helps just one person I think it's worth typing up. I welcome >any suggestions of things I may have missed fixing or cleaning up. > >My system has been up-to-date with unstable for over a year and a half >without problems. I stopped making updates a few we

How I fixed my trashed Debian system

1997-08-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 5 Aug 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > Whats the trick to this? > > > I did the same thing. Ended up with about 100 broken packages. I was able > > to fix it without reinstalling from scratch. I could describe what I did > > if anybody is interested. It involved having a spare partition