Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
If the following command still works on your system $ aptitude search ~i which should list all installed packages, then maybe, the reinstall will work with $ aptitude reinstall ~i Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread John O'Hagan
On Friday 25 August 2006 02:59, Aaron Goodman wrote: [...] > > Any way to do this quickly and just reinstall the same packages I had > before? I have var, usr, home all on seperate partitions. If you are able to run #dpkg -l | awk '/ii/ {print $2}' > somefile in your existing system, which will

Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron Goodman
On 8/24/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Goodman wrote:> Is there a way to check which files got corrupted and replace those> files? Or if not can I simply run a command to reinstall all of my> installed packages?I'd say just reinstall in place.  Copy /etc to a different location

Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Aaron Goodman wrote: > Is there a way to check which files got corrupted and replace those > files? Or if not can I simply run a command to reinstall all of my > installed packages? I'd say just reinstall in place. Copy /etc to a different location so you don't lose your configuration. I'm

Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron Goodman
I've had some hard drive corruption issues, I was able to transfer pretty much everything to another disk, but I had 192 bad blocks on my old disk so I have inevitably lost some data, furthermore I can't seem to boot.  I have booted to knoppix but I when I try to chroot into my debian environment,