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Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> wrote:

> FreeBSD7-amd64
> linux_base-fc-4_14  Base set of packages
> needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
>
> When running the install script, I get
>
> cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory
...
> What is this /proc/cpuinfo file not found?

Perhaps you do not have /proc mounted?  I think it
may not be included in the default configuration.