Major Goofup - Lost 99% of my install

[engti]

Hi All,

I was trying to install lamp using tasksel.

I don't know what happened but everything has gone. And by everything I mean everything, only cli is left. GUI, apps, network, drivers everything has disappeared. I can't even do an apt-get

Any idea how I can recover from this goof up.

[jjcv]

Reinstall from your latest backup?

It sounds like you have simply lost "X" but without more detail it is hard to know. What happens when you type:

startx

[engti]

First of all, thanks for your reply.

Nah it was worse than that. Tasksel was giving me issues, so I was just trying to run through and by mistake selected one of those barebones installs, Tasksel did that by removing almost each and every component - X, network, drivers, almost all the apps.

And because it removed network I couldn't use apt or something to install the ubuntu-desktop.

Thanks