* Anibal Monsalve Salazar (anibal@its.monash.edu.au) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:26:39PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > >Boot Knoppix or similar from a CD. PCs today are more often installed > >with CDs than floppies anyway. That's really a pretty poor reason. > > I cannot use a Knoppix CD to rescue my 75 MHz Pentium machine with 16 MB > of RAM running debian stable to connect my home network to the internet. > I have to use a rescue floppy. Roger's case is a good reason, IMHO. You may actually find this difficult to do w/ 2.6 anyway... > Other operating systems (e.g. Solaris) also provide stand alone programs > compiled with static libraries for exceptional cases where you don't > have access to the file systems where the shared libraries are located. I can understand that in some small cases for basic applications. Stephen
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