Re: [RULE] Xircom NIC: xirc2ps_cs.o doesn't load.

[C David Rigby]

Michael Fratoni wrote:

> Slightly more difficult. The older rpm is statically linked, and fairly
> small. The newer versions of rpm, I haven't been able to build a
> statically linked binary. There just isn't room on the image for the
> binary and the libraries required by the newer versions of RPM. If anyone
> has time to look into building a statically linked binary of a current
> version of rpm, by all means, have at it. If someone gets it built, I'll
> find a way to squeeze it into the disk image.
>
> - --
> - -Michael

I have been thinking about this a bit.  My experimentation has not gone 
very far yet (I have managed to build a 2.6.6 kernel for i386 from plain 
vanilla sources, but the Fedora kernel-source-2.6.5-1.358 compilation is 
still dying on me).  Since, if booting from floppy, we have to use two 
diskettes as it is, why not create a boot diskette with a kernel 
including as many drivers as possible and still fitting on a single 
floppy, then a separate compressed root filesystem on a 2nd floppy which 
includes the slinky scripts?  This would give us a larger root 
filesystem than currently possible with combined kernel + rootfs.gz on 
the current first disk.  I will have to experiment a bit to see what is 
possible, what fits, and if it will still run in 16MB of RAM.  I can 
build plain-vanilla kernels on my faster desktop system, but I have FC2 
installed only on my P166 notebook, so it is a slow process using the 
RedHat sources there.

CDR