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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > How do I figure out what it expands to?  
> 
> Execute top.  It will show you the RSS (real storage size) for
> all your running processes.  The RSS for links-ssl is nearly
> 1.2mb.  The RSS for the links in BL3 is 500kb.

For the links in BL2 it is about 800K.  I presume links in BL3 is smaller 
because of the different library.  Ssl sure makes things bigger.

 
> This is not an issue for people with more than 8mb RAM, but it
> could be a show-stopper for people with 4mb RAM.
> 
> > The uncompressed links 0.93 is 488K and the compressed links-ssl 
> > is about 400K.  
> 
> The links in BL3 is 429kb.
> 
> > We tested it at three secure sites already - one bbs and two 
> > webmail sites.  
> 
> I'm glad it is working OK.  Should be a pretty good add-on for
> BL1, BL2 or BL3.  I believe the ssh at basiclinux.com.ru also
> works on any version.

It worked (at least it loaded, I did not try it online) with BL1 
on hard drive.  Sometimes I get an odd little error message but it goes 
ahead and works anyway.  

> 
> > Perhaps you can recompile it to leave out support for other 
> > languages and character sets 
> 
> It was compiled in diet-libc (which I do not have) and them
> compressed with UPX (which I also do not have).  Moreover,
> removing a few language files is not going to change the
> footprint very much.  I've tried that in the past without
> gaining a significant reduction in size.

Would you need to find or compile UPX for diet-libc?  I found the 
executable for SW71 and used it on lynx.  
 
> > I have copied eznet.conf and resolv.conf to the BL2 directory 
> > on my hard drive and will copy them over manually back to the 
> > RAMdisk every time unless you can tell me some way to have that 
> > happen while booting.
> 
> Why don't you edit baslinux.gz and customize it to do exactly
> what you want?
> (1) gunzip baslinux.gz
> (2) mount baslinux  -- first you'll need to 'insmod loop'
> '                      then mount -o loop baslinux /mnt
> (3) cd /mnt and change what you want
> (4) when you are done, umount /mnt and gzip baslinux

Okay, some time when I am feeling adventurous.  But I don't plan to be 
using the RAMdisk version for much longer since we will be putting 
together a few DOS/linux computers next.  I already have four DOS 
partitions on this computer and don't want to bother adding another drive.

What is loop?  Am I doing the above from a hard drive version of baslinux?
I have never heard of mounting a file.

Today, for the first time in a year, I was unable to dial with linux.  I 
finally figured out my phone was slightly off hook.  Easy fix.  


> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
>  
> 
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