George Metz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> <Snip!>
>
> > * Tried to remove EVERYTHING and ANYTHING located
> > in root.lrp that required backups: thus, root.lrp
> > should be completely static for almost all purposes.
> > (if it isn't, I'm not done :)
>
> As a note, on the lazy side of things - since I am, first and foremost, a
> lazy SOB <g> - this means that any update to Oxygen's root.lrp can be
> simply plugged in to any Oxygen-derived images and BANG, Derivative
> updated. That's awfully appealing to me. =)
Every good programmer is :)
I'm thinking like this: grab your config.lrp, add it to a new Oxygen
disk, and bang! Instant update!
> > * Using a new glibc means you are no longer able to use a floppy
> > (probably).
>
> Why? A stripped glibc 2.1.x setup only takes about a hundred to two
> hundred kbytes more of disk space; if the only things on the disk are the
> root and etc LRPs, then there should be tons of space for it.
Yes and no. 100k - 200k is HUGE! However, the only things required to
boot Oxygen is the syslinux overhead and root.lrp; the rest can be
loaded over the network.
Also, I've been leery of "stripped glibc" ever since I banged my head on
ncurses from the get go. First thing I did was replace Dave's stripped
ncurses (in LRP) with a full ncurses 4 library. All of a sudden
everything worked :)
> > * using a more up-to-date glibc - this is something to seriously
> > consider, methinks.
>
> Aye.
I've been wondering if newlib or something would implement everything
but with basic functions - to provide full support for new libraries and
functions, yet in a small package. 100k to 200k is too much for me - I
don't have that much free space on disk! ...
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