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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!news.eds.co.nz!liam From: liam@sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com (Liam Greenwood) Subject: Re: dynamic-vs-static linked /bin etc (was: Re: TCP latency) X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Reply-To: Liam.Greenwood@nz.eds.com Sender: usenet@nz.eds.com (Usenet News Admin) Organization: EDS (New Zealand) Limited, Wellington, New Zealand Message-ID: <slrn4v3v7a.vuq.liam@sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <87k9w6g6u4.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31E9D0CC.41C67EA6@dy <slrn4uthl2.ma1.liam@sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com> <4sn2bq$mmb@Venus.mcs.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:46:37 GMT Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45976 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24126 On 18 Jul 1996 23:19:06 -0500, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote: > In article <slrn4uthl2.ma1.liam@sweetums.lab.nz.eds.com>, > Liam Greenwood <Liam.Greenwood@nz.eds.com> wrote: > >make sure that _all_ the binaries I need to boot single user are statically > > 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. If my system is unbootable then no number of floppies will help me. If my _kernel_ didn't boot then I can understand your argument. Booting a boot/root system from floppy still isn't booting my broken system, it's booting a foreign system which will allow me to mount my systems disks and maybe fix problems. This will just about always take longer at higher risk than booting the broken system single user to fix it. Time is the most expensive thing around at the moment, 2 hours wasted time buys 16 meg memory, 3 hours buys a gig of disk. Static linked binaries are cheaper than floppies in my environment. Cheers, Liam