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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Thanks for this information.  I will install the SW 8.1 runtime libraries
and maybe remove the older glibc by going to the directory it is in as you
suggested earlier.  At the moment the only thing I wanted to run that
required a newer library was Opera, but I will keep in mind that it is
possible to continue updating libraries (and eventually to compile my own
kernel 2.4 or whatever number they are up to by now if some program needs
that too).

I am about to attempt to compile openssl so that I can use it to compile 
lynx-ssl 2.8.5dev.  After this kernel compilation should be a breeze ;)
(I can compile without networking and maybe with sound - is there anything 
else that I might want to add or subtract?)

What would it take to use a DVD-ROM drive with linux to play movies?
(Other than getting sound working first, and probably Xvesa for graphics).
Someone gave us one from Samsung that I don't know how to use at all.
The public library now has free DVDs.  They have discontinued vinyl 
records and cassette tapes.  (I have not done so).  We downloaded three 
Win98 files purporting to be drivers and none of them looked useful nor 
did they work when installed and used with RealOne DVD player.

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to install BL2 to hard drive with 
> > the SW81 runtime libraries rather than installing 
> > the original ones 
> 
> The libraries that are installed come directly from the 
> BL2 ramdisk (along with everything else).  They are not 
> a distinct package (and in fact are only a subset of the 
> libraries in the complete runtime package).
> 
> > This was glibc6-solibs and cxxlibs.  
> 
> glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i386-2.tgz
> cxxlibs-6.2.1-i386-1.tgz
> 
> > Which of the BL2 files is cxxlibs, 
> 
> None.  The cxxlibs are not included in the base BL2
> installation.
> 
> > is it included in glibc.tgz?
> 
> No.  The cxxlibs package in Slackware 7.1 is in the a3
> directory.
> 
> > The installation program presumably looks for the required 
> > list of packages on CD or hard drive.  
> 
> The installation routine is a bash script (/usr/lib/setup/go).  
> It starts by displaying instructions and then checks that the
> partition is ready.  If everything is OK, it gets to this line:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> pkg="2/bin 2/e2fsprog 3/gzip 4/fileutls 6/grep 6/hdsetup 6/ldso 13/tar"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> That is where the package names (with directories) are specified.
> 
> > Could I substitute the later glibc for the earlier one by 
> > renaming it?  
> 
> As you can see, there is no library package in that list.
> 
> BTW before you become too excited about the glibc2.2 libraries
> from Slackware 8.1, keep in mind that more and more binaries
> are now appearing that require glibc2.3.  The Slackware 8.1
> libraries are no better for them than the libraries in BL2
> (or the libraries in BL1 for that matter).  If you really want
> to be up-to-date, the libraries in Slackware 9.1 should be much
> more useful.  However, I don't know if they will install as
> readily as the libraries from Slackware 8.1.  At some point 
> the new bells+whistles are going to barf on the BL2 base.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
>   
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