upgrading ldso (because executor does not work)
I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb
because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware
just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've
tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the
slackware distro. No luck.
Back on the subject; what I wanted to do was to boot of the rescue
disk, and mount the root as /target then use dpkg -root=/target -i name.deb
to upgrade the ldso.
I want to do it from the boot floppy so I can back up to ldso_1.8.10-2.deb
if something goes wrong. Of course if something does go wrong it means the
only way I can fix is by booting of the rescue floppy, since the machine
probably won't boot. (call be paranoid if you want)
dpkg -i does not work when you boot of the rescue floppy, it complaings
about "sysinfo" symbol not found (can't remember the exact error).
Can anybody offer me some clues as to how I can acomplish what I want to do.
To me at least it sounds like something that should work out of the box and
I'd like to see dpkg on the boot floppy. If there isn't enough space on the
boot floppy than it should be on the cdrom boot image when using loadline of
the cdrom.
Just my $.02 on the matter. I'm not that far off from switching to
some other distro, like redhat to avoid some of these problems, along with
the poor documentation on building your own packages and awkward pacakge
selection/management. I've dealt with a lot of different distributions in
my life, SGI, DEC, SUN, slackware, debian, redhat, they all have their set
of problems and advantages. Whatever works I guess.
Radu
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