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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: BL3 with libc6? was Re: [BL] XDM
  • Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:58:50 +0000 (UTC)

The xbin.tgz package is part of the usual X
installation for BL2, so BL2 users will probably
already have xdm.

Except those of us who managed to get Xvesa working with BL2 instead of the usual package and just picked out the minimal dependencies from xbin.tgz and xlib.tgz and a few other packages. To do this sort of thing, having copied it to /tmp, tar -zxvf xbin.tgz, which makes an xbin subdirectory containing all the files in the proper locations (but under /xbin) and then you just copy them to where they belong under /. For instance cp /tmp/xbin/usr/bin/xdm /usr/bin/xdm - if it happens to be in that location. (There is probably a more elegant way to do this with tar but I don't know how to extract just one file from the CD of SW71. Steven, please correct any errors in the above.)

BL3 fits better onto a small hard drive and is already set up with Xvesa and Abiword. BL2 with Xvesa would take a lot of fiddling to get Abiword to work, but apart from that it can be used with more precompiled packages (tho you need to update glibc in some cases).

Can BL3 be used with both libc5 AND the libc6-so from SW8.1? If so, that would be the best of both worlds. You could run non-GPL programs like Opera 7, use precompiled xpdf, but have a much smaller set of compiler files. (I just installed them and was even able to delete a lot of stuff related to non-i386 hardware to save 4MB more space). BL2 (Sw71) is newer than all my computers so the support for newer hardware is irrelevant.

Would this still be BL3? Is there any disadvantage to this sort of approach? BL3 already has Xvesa set up, and PCMCIA works. I hope the lynx compiled for BL2 (static except for libc) would continue to work, along with the delilinux links2 (SVGAlib) and w3m. We would have a choice of using BL3 or BL2 kernel, the latter having a few more features (I forget what) or bare.i from SW7.1 for things like sound.

I have BL2 in a 1G hda3 partition on my largest drive and would like to move it to hda4 (still larger) in order to free up hda3 for BL3 and
use it with both libc's. Do I mke2fs /dev/hda4 and mount it then tar -cvzf temp.tgz in /hda3 and then cp temp.tgz /dev/hda4 and tar -zxvf temp.tgz (like I did to transfer between computers)?

I could then put data files (.raw files, .pdf files, etc) in BL2 but use them from BL3, right? I am still trying to burn CDs and I think the two disks that I tried to burn on the one where they would not burn got altered because there is now something about a bad block 0. (It is also possible someone messed them up before I tried to use them on the first one, experimenting). I want to try burning a fresh one in BL2 and also in BL3 (at least a dummy run) and I already have the .raw file copied to HD.


I recommend you do not try to install the entire
xbin.tgz package on BL3 (because it is likely to
over-write the existing config files for X).
If you really want to run xdm, I suggest you
install BL2 instead of BL3 (it will probably be
easier in the long run).

If we wanted 'easier' there are linuxes that make all the decisions for you.


Cheers,
Steven

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