Hello...
I am booting a FreeBSD system from the network via PXE.
On that FreeBSD system is Perl 5.005.
I want to use the IO::Socket::INET module in a script on that system. (But
I'd settle for Socket.pm)
The kicker is that the entire root filesystem must be less than 50 megs.
The other kicker is that I don't have a 5.005 installation to copy from.
So I don't have room to install a whole Perl 5.8. I spent a few hours
trying to run my script; copy in the module it failed on; hack the good code
in that module; repeat: but I eventually lost my mind trying to find all
the things that IO::Socket::INET requires.
Can anyone suggest either: a way to make IO::Socket::INET work in the
simplest possible way on 5.005; or a way to install the smallest possible
5.8; or something I haven't thought of?
Any suggestion (no matter how crazy!) is welcome...
-Chris
