Re: /usr partition lost because of dead drive ...

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Wed, 1969-12-31 at 21:59, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote:=20

(Is this still current, after 33 years? ;)

> Is there a way to recover a Woody system with kernel 2.4.18, if the
> /usr partition was on a dead drive if I still have /var ? or should I
> forget all about it and reinstall a new Woody system ?

The good news is that /usr only contains system files which can be restored
from packages (unless you put something else in /usr/local).

The bad news is that /usr contains all binaries, so you'd need some kind of
rescue system to restore it.

> I'm concerned If I have to install a fresh Debian Woody, because the
> installer didn't like my CV643d and the only way I had to install
> Debian was by installing Potato and then upgrading everything to=20
> Woody a cumbersome and very tedious task !

The problem occurs because virgefb sets LineLength to 0, which should be
easy to change. It wouldn't be hard for the installer (the bogl library
to be exact) to work around this either, but it's probably too late for
any changes to the woody boot-floppies now.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast