On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:57:17PM -0800, thus said Ethan Benson: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:43:24PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > > > So, what I want to do is take the binary that was created in my fully > > installed system, pack it up using tar, and then transport it to my > > new-install system, so I can be in the ramdisk, and then untar it so > > that it works, and I can connect to the 'net, and complete my install. > > like i said, i doubt this would work because the libc on the ramdisk > is reduced, its not full libc. not even hfsutils will run off of it > among other things. > > > I just don't know how to collect everything I need to make sure the > > binary works on the ramdisk. Anyone got any ideas on how to do this? > > dpkg -L pppoe > dpkg -s pppoe | gpep ^Depends > > you need everything not in /usr/share/doc for every package it depends > on. and probably a real libc. will that fit on the root disk? no.
Do we still use the base .tar.gz of the bare bones system? I remember fetching that into my macos partition and doing the base install using it - it contains dpkg and a functional base system so you should be able to install everything else after that? In my case I even had problems booting with the floppy images (since Pismo has no floppy drive, and there was no bootable CD for ppc at the time I could find) - So I just untarred the base .tgz into a new partition, removed /sbin/unconfigured.sh and off I went booting from that. Needless to say I did a LOT of "stuff breaks and you fix it" -work... Not recommended. :-P Is it possible for you to burn a bootable CD somewhere? That could be another option as well. (Do those work on oldworlds?) Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . |\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-----. +----> www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <----+ `-----> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'
