From: Michele Andreoli (andreoli@pisoft.it)
Date: Wed Feb 03 1999 - 12:56:10 CET
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 09:02:46PM -0500, Hodge wrote:
> hello
> I would like to say that i think you did a very good job with mulinux. i am very interested in linux and i was wondering how you fit X onto 1 floppy? i have been looking all over for X on a floppy because i want to install it with my slackware distribution. but i cant find one. so i want to try to make my own "floppy X". do you have any suggestions? could you tell me how you did it?
>
> thanks
>
> hodge@powersupply.net
Hello Hodge: a good starting point is my X11.tgz. This is an tarred+bzipped
archive. But, warning: this binaries use libc.so.5 and other "old" X library.
Xserver also il "old": 3.1 release, because other don't fit in 1 floppy
In this floppy You can find: Xserver VGA-16 (4 color :(( ), two full-configured
window-manager (afterstep & fvwm95), chimera web browser, xmixer, etc ...
muLinux phylosophy grant a full separation of this X sub-file-system from
the remaining one. This is useful for isolating the X "question".
You can explode this X11 in a your sub-directory, with this command:
mkdir my_X11; cd my_X11
cat X11.tgz | bzip2 -ds | tar -xvf -
and explore what X11 need, in minimal form.
After, you can replace selectively some file (use ldd to extract
dynamic libs info from a binary) and put, finally, all that in
your /usr/X11R6 partition:
rm -r /usr/X11R6
cp -a my_X11/* /
(carefully!)
Best regard,
-Michele-
-- Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative? -- Woody Allen
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