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

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:22:18AM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> I think this is addressed to my attempts to upgrade libc6, but I apologize
> that I don't know enough about linux to understand most of it.  Or maybe
> any of it.  I have never created an image or used a rescue disk.  I think
> I can unpack a library and move it to two directories but not to an image.
> And why do I need a ppp package?  Thanks for trying to help.  

Because the rescue disk, something like BL, does not have network
components. The package will allow you to dial up to your isp.

There is a good link out there which explains how to do this. If I can
find it I will let you know.

> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> 
> > By making use of BL to install the rescue disk in rootdisk/, the library
> > packages and ppp package for dial-up.  Boot to BL. First, you have to use 
> > dd to
> > create an empty image and make the ext2 file system on the image.  The
> > image has to be bigger then the rescue disk. Then copy everything except
> > the lib/ to the image you have created. Unpack the library packages and
> > move it to the lib/ and usr/lib/ of the image. Unpack ppp package to
> > usr/sbin/ of the image. compress the image and write to a floppy.
> > Lastly, download a bootdisk from slackware and write to another floppy.
> > Boot the bootdisk and follow the instructions. This is the idea.
> > 
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