From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 18: 9:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.keycomp.net (www.keycomp.net [207.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7156F183DA; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:09:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billieakay@yahoo.com) Received: from bopper (kc-rmt09.keycomp.net [207.44.1.11]) by www.keycomp.net (8.8.5/SCO5) with SMTP id VAA05788; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003001bf1a97$b9010960$0b012ccf@bopper> From: "Bill A. K." To: "Mark Newton" Cc: , References: <199910192228.HAA86016@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: Solaris Binaries on FreeBSD Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:09:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you the author of this emulation? I was wondering because Sun is now shipping Solaris 7.0, will this work? BTW I am running CURRENT Bill billieakay@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Newton To: Bill A. K. Cc: ; Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:28 PM Subject: Re: Solaris Binaries on FreeBSD > Bill A. K. wrote: > > > I was wondering if we can run Solaris Binaries on our great OS? I've > > heard that OpenBSD can do it. If FreeBSD will, what do I need to do this? > > Grab a copy of the Solaris/x86 libraries from Sun (they'll ship you a > CD set for $10 which includes SPARC and x86 binaries). Then look > at http://www.freebsd.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4/ to see how to make it > work. > > Note that the module sources on the web page have not been tested with > 3.x for a very long time. You really ought to be running -current to > expect this to work. > > - mark > > ---- > Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) > Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) > Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 > "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message