Re: bios woes

"Wm. G. McGrath" <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:42:29 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:59:56 -0600
Cary Jamison <[email protected]> wrote:

: This is what I suspect his problem his, also.  More explicitly,
: the 'file not found' error is caused by not being able to find one
: of the shared libraries needed.  You can verify this by typing
: 'ldd cmospwd' and see what libraries and versions it expects.  The
: solution is as Robert said above - I would first try a static
: link, strip it and compress it to get it small enough to fit on a
: floppy. 

Yes. This is exactly what I did. ldd returned the following two
links:	libc.so.6 => /lib/lib.cso.6 (0x40018000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

gcc with -static did the job, followed by gzip. Strictly sneakernet.

	b.