reinstalling debian /bin

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:53:35PM -0400, James Kramer wrote:
> While working on Xen setup I managed to delete /bin  by using the command
> rm -R /bin. I don't think that I can recover the /bin files but I
> should be able to reinstall the packages. I have a backup of all my
> data files and most config files that were in /etc.  I can boot into a
> different debian OS using grub so I can access the partition and
> files.  I can chroot the particular partition.  Can someone suggest
> how to reinstall the system.  If I do a complete debian reinstalll
> from CD on top the partition would it retain my old directories and
> files.  I tried to chroot the root partion figuring that I could use
> apt-get to reinstall the packages but I can not figure out the proper
> way to do it.  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Use dpkg --get-selection to get a list of all installed
packages, then apt-get install --reinstall to reload them.

-dsr-

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