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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
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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