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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 1995 00:35:06 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Repair floppies - what should we have? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199503082335.AAA04546@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <m0rmQvg-0003wMC@TFS.COM> from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 8, 95 10:57:52 am

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As Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> >From doing many repairs, The following are needed

> 8/ a symlink from /usr/lib to /mnt/usr/lib so that if
>    there are binaries on the HD you want, you can get to the shared libs..

More important than this symlink would be the ld.so (or a symlink to
/mnt/usr/libexec).  While you are free to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at any
time, ld.so is only searched at this one position.

Perhaps we should also search it under /stand???

> you can easily swap disks during boot by booting -c and puting in a floppy
> when the config prompt comes up..

Good idea, better than ``hot-swapping''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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