On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > > i am in the process of modifying loader-network to allow redhat to install > on machine with 16MB of memory. right now, i need to install dumb terminals > and 32MB is too much. it would also be too tedious to add a remove an > additional 16MB while installing. > > i installed anaconda, anaconda-devel and anaconda-srpm. i untarred the > anacoda source tarball. i editted the loader.c file. and the resulting > loader-network file is > 2.5MB! so i removed all the debugging flags (-g > -ggdb) from the Makefiles and recompiled. the resulting file was still > > 2MB. i looked at all the linked objects and the large ones seem to be > /usr/lib/libresolv.a around 700+K and /usr/lib/libutil.a. > > can somebody help me? thanks. Instead of rolling your own take a look at the RULE project: http://www.rule-project.org/ - Panu -
