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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!cs.uwp.edu!nelson From: nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dynamic-vs-static linked /bin etc (was: Re: TCP latency) Date: 19 Jul 1996 12:49:17 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4so08d$kgo@news.inc.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E9D0CC.41C67EA6@dy <slrn4uthl2.ma1.liam@sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com> <4sn2bq$mmb@venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.210.1.4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45787 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23990 In article <4sn2bq$mmb@venus.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote: >Huh? What does a floppy cost these days - maybe $.50? Or use one of the >ones the AOL keeps mailing out... A few minutes with the 'yard' utility >will get you a bootable floppy with a compressed ramdisk image on the >same or a second disk. You can recover more than a mistake with shared >libs with an appropriate toolkit - or just use it to reload your backup >tape. How again did you say you were going to do this without a shell? Does linux mmap() in the shlibs? No shlib, no shell. No shell, hell of a time booting into single user mode. The answer, of course, is still that everything that you _must_ have available in single user mode must be statically linked. -jfn