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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> The lynx 2.8.5 that I compiled statically (including the SW71 libc) and
> which will not work online but works offline in BL1 has the same problem
> in BL3.  I installed to HD and tried to access the BL3 site and got
> 'Unable to connect to remote host'.  Since this is what you get when you
> have lost your connection (I checked on the other computer offline) I
> then tried links and it immediately accessed the BL3 site.
>
> Then I did pkg on the SW81 glibc 2.2.5 solibs package (having mounted BL2
> so I could access the tgz file there) and again tried that lynx and this
> time it worked perfectly.
>
> To confirm this, I then copied lynx and lynx.cfg to the loop version of
> Bl3 and again 'Unable to connect to remote host' (and links and telnet do
> work).
>
> (Lynx will work better if you also copy over cert.pem and will let you
> change coloring and underlines with lynx.lss but the above two files are
> the basic ones).
>
> There must be something in that solibs package (SW71 or SW81 work)  which
> lynx needs to access websites that is not a 'dependency' which gets listed
> by ldd or gets compiled into the statically compiled package (which also
> inludes openssl and ncurses and zlib).  Any ideas what it might be?
>
> I had been expecting it not to work until I added the SW71 pppd but that
> was not needed.   And the later pppd did not help in BL1 (from SW4.0).
>
> I have discovered that my fastest computer with 256MB RAM was running
> linux with 64MB RAM until I added to the boot.bat line  mem=256M.
> This has happened to other people too.  Might it be helpful to include in
> the instructions a suggestion to type 'free' and if the memory is too low,
> add mem=?M (? = actual memory in the computer).
>
> Is this a problem with loadlin (keeping the DOS 64MB, which is the DOS
> limit) or does it also happen with lilo?