discuss: Glibc Mini-Howto
Subject:
Re: Glibc Mini-Howto
From:
"David Horton" ####@####.####
Date:
3 Feb 2004 20:45:47 -0000
Message-Id: <W4053624036242981075841119@webmail4>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 08:17 AM
> To: 'David Horton'
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> Subject: Re: Glibc Mini-Howto
>
> Hi,
> --- snip ---
> > >>* You might suggest having a boot/rescue diskset handy as an
> > >>alternative to compiling statically-linked bash, coreutils, etc.
> > >>This could be a great time-saver.
> > >
> > >
> > > Indeed a good idea, and I have an even better one: There are several
> > > Try-Out-Versions of Linux, which come on a single CD and have
> > > everything you need bundled with it, e.g. Knoppix
> > > (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) all you need to do is
> > > download the image and burn it on CD could not be simpler ....
> > >
> > That works too. Maybe you could give the three alternatives, static
> > linking, boot diskette or single CD distro, and let readers choose
> > which works best for them. Somebody with a 56k dialup connection may
> > be unable to download a rescue CD, but might not mind fetching a
> > diskette image or source code to build statically-linked binaries.
> >
> I was thinking about writing about the three options when I ran into
> problems with the boot-disk and the CD.
>
> Problems with the bootdisk:
> You can't get all the tools you need on a boot-disk, so it is
> necessary to use the tools you already installed on a harddisk, so
> these ones also need to be static, you almost win nothing. And
> probably you have to handle the problems with the --prefix. I think
> this causes more hassle than working in place with static tools.
>
> Problems with the Boot-CD:
> Again you have to get along with the problem of the installation-
> prefix, and you will have to struggle, how to setup your ldconfig.
>
> As for theses reasons I am not going to mention the methods.
>
>
Actually, I was thinking of a pre-made boot disk like Tom's rtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/) or bootable CD-ROMs like Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.com) rather than building something from source code. The bootable diskette or CD-ROM could be used to rescue the system in case you need to back out.
