Re: ?files from /lib to put on parted disk?

[Andrew Clausen]

"Robert E. Harvey, M.D." wrote:
> 5)  copy lib/*  to the floppy
> 
> in my directory there are far too many files to copy to the utility
> disk.   Which of the lib funtions are necessary for parted to work?

Go back to instruction (1) for a second ;-)

> further in your instructions you state:
> 
> 9)  Run parted
> 
> # cd mnt/floppy
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH =. ./parted
> 
> is . ./parted a typo?  Am I really supposed to type dot  dot slash
> parted to start parted?

dot space dot slash, yes.  There is no space between LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and =.

The first bit ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.") sets an environment variable
to tell the dynamic linker to look in the current directory for
libraries.  The second bit ("./parted") just runs Parted ;-)

Andrew Clausen