dedicated server on linux

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:43 am

with luck, yes.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:46 am

whats the worst that would happen?

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:51 am

that's a very good question. The c library is one of the fundamental libraries on the machine. It's actually more dangerous than building a new kernel to replace the c library. So the worst that could happen is you wind up with nothing working well enough that you have to reinstall and figure something else out. I'm so far under the impression that this machine is currently throwaway as far as the operating system is concerned, so you could just do it, see what happens, try to recover from anything bad, and if you manage to do all that, you're golden. If not, you can reformat and try again with something else, right?

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:05 am

yes that will be my game plan, but how do i go about reformated in linux, or can i do that in my pre boot setup?

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:20 am

Every installer (with the possible exception of dsl) will do it, if you can just get it to boot.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:21 am

DO i type a command into the terminal, and if so what is it?

edit: when i type in apt-get glibc it says
E: Invalid operation glibc

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:43 am

oops

"apt-get install glibc"

you use apt-cache search glibc to search packages

I think that's it for what I know.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:11 pm

now i get this messege

Package glibc has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not availbe with the contents of sources.list
E: Package glibc has no installation canidate

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:22 pm

A big guess here:

Damn Small Linux is supposed to be small. So they removed anything that is not fundamental or is quite big.

Compiling and development is non-trivial, and requires lots of resources, both in CPU and in disk space for all the libraries.

You are meeting two opposites. I'm not saying it is not possible, i'm simply saying if I was on the team to make DSL, compiling would have been quickly out the door to fit in such restrictive space.

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Out of curiosity, how much disk space do you have on this server of yours for Linux files AFTER you set the swap partition (you might not need it)? 0.25G 0.5G, 1G, 2G, 4G+?
IIRC, I need ~3.5Gigs at home for all the binaries and system files(ie: without my own personal files), and I installed quite a lot of junk. If you are a tad conservative when you install a distro like Ubuntu, i'd guess you would succed into making a server in 2G of space, possibly on 1G. And you would stop all of this hassle that seems geared toward much more restrictive hardware.
Could someone else report their actual disk usage on their linux for comparaison purpose?

-ph

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:28 pm

It says that I normally have 125608 KB
and i have 33612 KB of free space

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:51 pm

Shouldn't a statically linked binary work?

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:54 pm

maybe, what is it and/or how can I do that?

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:01 am

I don't know that it's even possible to statically link to the c library. It has a lot of stuff that's installation-dependent, afaik. Usually, when you get a statically linked binary, everything's been linked statically except the c library.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:16 am

so what is the recommended course of action?

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:23 am

I can't recommend anything because I don't even know if *I* could fit an arma server in 124MB.