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

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2006 03:29:49 +0000 (UTC)
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 May 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > >     Just to say that I have, for the first time, got on-line with BL3.4 HD 
> > > installation.
> >
> > >     It has taken a while:  I had to copy some of the cxxnnnn libs into a
> > > different x/lib directory so that wvdial worked.
> >
> > Welcome, but why are you using wvdial and cxx libs instead of Steven's
> > little setup with ppp-on and eznet/pppd for dialing?
>
>   Because my ISP has an unusual dial-up/log-in setup that eznet doesn't cope 
> with.  :(
> This ISP requires ppp to run BEFORE the user/pass dialogue, a system that the wvdial 
> documentation describes as "stupid mode" and has a configuration switch to 
> deal with it.
>
>   I had some correspondance on the BL list some time ago when the ISP 
> introduced this and I suddenly found myself unable to log-on with BL, 
> although Arachne (bless her !) took it in her stride. And David Moberg 
> pointed me in the direction of wvdial. And the rest, as they say, is hysteria 
> !    :)
>
>   On another matter (BL3.4), I tried to install a flash-player to the shiny 
> new Opera in BL3.4, but it comlained that my glibc is too old.
>   The SW9.0 glibc is 14 MB !   but that is not really a problem on this 
> machine.  My question is more about compatability.  On one previous occasion 
> I tried to upgrade libraries on BL2 and it made a complete mess of that 
> installation that took over a week to recover from, and I have been a bit 
> gun-shy since.

I think you can safely delete /usr/lib/gconv (something to do with non 
English character sets?) and anything ending in .a or .la (used for static 
compiling) to save a lot of space, but you would still need to downoad 
the large package unless Steven or someone wants to post just the 2.3.1
libraries in /lib and maybe /usr/libexec/pt_chown (if it is like SW10.2 
libc).  My /lib/*2.3.5* is about 2.3MB, most of which is libc and libm and 
libnsl.

There is a 1999 ld.so - what does this do?


>    Is there ANY possibility that installing the SW9.0 glibc libraries 
> (not the glibc-solibs which are running well) could farkle BL3.4 ?

What does farkle mean in dictionary English?

Can you copy your entire setup to a spare partition before experimenting 
on it?

We found a taker (with a Mac) for the printer than needed gimp-print (and 
therefore glibc 2.3.5 from SW10.2) so I would be interested in downgrading 
to SW9.0 too.

> Regards,
>        Ron
>
>
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