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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Folks,

   I think I stuffed up.    :(

   In my efforts to get my installation of BL2 to run more and more
players/viewers I finally overcooked it, and now I cannot get BL2 to
even boot properly.

   I have saved (by RAM BL2) most of the irreplaceable stuff to a DOS
disk, and even tried to save most of the (mostly huge) downloaded stuff
that did work (as original packages), but I suspect there is not going
to be a way to avoid re-formatting the partition and start builing it
from scratch.  Again.  :(

   What happened was this: I was trying to get Xine to play. And I
finally did.    :)

   But: In order to get it to run at all, I was pursuing bigger and
better libraries.  I got as far as the two glibc-2.2.5 libraries from
Slakware8.1, and all was fine.  Then I chased down a glibc-2.3- library
for something Xine wanted, and I finally found an .rpm of the right i386
sort - so I thought.  But when I got MC to install it, I got a "corrupted
binary that linked to errno.h, and stuff", but Xine actually ran with
that.  Hooray ! I thought.

  Then I tried to run Links-graphical (among others) and got crash after
crash. Including pkgtool and installpkg - so I couldn't overwrite
anything anyway.

   In my uneducated rush to fix it, I have now lost a lot of the
other libraries, and now it stops halfway through bootup to the message
that libX.something not found or doesn't exist. 

   Is there a way to recover all the work that has gone into this
particular installation, or am I really looking at a reformat and start
from scratch ?

Regards,
         Ron  (back to using Arachne in DOS)


Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes      http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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