* Anibal Monsalve Salazar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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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