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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:14:50AM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 02:04:43PM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > 
> > > It may also be worth upgrading to glibc6 2.2.5 if that is what it takes 
> > > to
> > > do https with Lynx 2.8.4.  Or glibc6 2.3.1 if that will let me use the
> > 
> > But you can . There is a rescue disk in the rootdisk directory of
> > slackware mirror. You can replace the busybox from the rescue disk and
> > the libraries with the library packages from the slackware current with
> > the ones from BL. Maybe also replace the dev directory if you have any 
> > problem.
> 
> Probably you can, but I can't.  I don't understand any of this.  I don't

Well, I am no better than anyone here. I am just more familiar and do a
bit  of experimenting.

> know how to replace a busybox or even what a dev directory is or does.  Or

BL also has a dev/ and busybox (in bin/).

> what a rescue disk is.  I rescued myself when I messed up the library by

A rescue disk is something like BL.

> using the RAMdisk version of BL2 to edit it back to the way it was, and I
> was thinking I could simply unzip the new library, copy it to /lib and
> then use the BL2 RAMdisk version to type up new links.  And if this did

There is a link out there which explains how to do this. Let see if I
can find it.

> not work at least I could put it back the way it was before.  
> 
> 
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