Re: bios woes

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:35:17AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:44:53 -0400 (EDT) Tom Oehser wrote:
>> What isn't found is the glibc shared c library version 6.  Tomsrtbt
>> is based on libc5.  Try linking with -static.
> 
> The files were huge and I had to compress them to get them on a floppy

Last year I had a university course on embedded systems.  Predictably,
the "embedded system" was actually a single-board PC.  Rather than use
WinCE, I just popped a slightly-modified tomsrtbt in the floppy drive.
(Yeah, "embedded".)  Then I developed all my drivers and applications on
a separate laptop, compiled and linked statically, and sent the binaries
via the network (repeat, "embedded").  It worked very well, and my
development time was always a tiny fraction of that of the WinCE/Visual
C++ crew.

If you have a functioning network under tomsrtbt, you can do the same
using a server on another computer and wget (snarf) on the tomsrtbt
host.  Personally I did plain TCP using netcat.

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