Drew Hess
>
>> you don't need /usr/libexec to boot single-user; i.e. it's still
>> partially usable.
>
>Yes, I was able to boot single-user, but I couldn't use the tar files on
>sun-lamp because gzip and tar were dynamically linked, and after I screwed
>up and used the ld.so from the April 3 binary snapshot, I got core dumps
>whenever I tried to use a dynamic exec with a pre-April 3 kernel.  Since
>I couldn't get the April 3 kernel on sun-lamp to work, I was kinda hosed.

I got myself into a different situation, but one of the problems was
similiar, I needed to get at tar and gzip and I couldn't use the
dynamically linked ones. However, if you can mount either of the
original inst1-09 or inst2-09 installation floppies, you will find
statically linked versions of tar and gzip on those floppies. I keep
those versions of tar, gzip, and mread on my / partition just-in-case.

Greg Cronau
gregc@edi.com


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