Subject: Re: C library upgrade question
From: Uncle George (gatgul@voicenet.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 00:44:17 PDT
The Idea would be to not reload the whole sys from floppy/cd. My libs are not always
at the same level of the outdated 'cd', and would prefer not to trash whole disk
because a 'block' of data inside the 'lib' is corrupted
gat
BTW this is why I have just a 'sys' | '/' partition incase i upgrade, and it goes
badly. I'm just not ready to trash ( lets clean out the whole partition ) my sources,
work whatever else that I may have forgotten. It is also the reason why i have
separate partitions for RH5.x & RH6.0. Oh well.
gat
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Uncle George wrote:
> >
> > Init also hooked in shared libs? So if the lib gets clobbered, no init/no system.
>
> Relinking 'init' static would solve both problems at once (i.e. "dirty"
> shutdown and an initial boot); but clobbered basic shared libraries mean
> no much of a system in any case. Time to boot from a floppy into a ram
> disk and refresh libraries from CD - as long as you still have your hard
> drive.
>
> If your /lib is gone but a disk is there then you can likely still boot
> with an 'init=/bin/ash' kernel option if you have /bin/ash statically
> linked (or other small shell of that sort).
>
> Michal
>
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