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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:35:12 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing linux_base 6.1
Message-ID:  <20000220133512.I14682@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002190431.UAA91173@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:31:06PM -0800
References:  <56014.950933236@zippy.cdrom.com> <200002190431.UAA91173@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:31:06PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     I wound up having to rm -rf /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux and
>     then doing the make install, which worked.  It created /usr/compat/linux
>     and didn't seem to care that no /compat/linux existed.  However,
>     other linux programs (e.g. the linux netscape) still look in /compat so 
>     I had to create a softlink from /compat/linux to /usr/compat/linux
>     in order for netscape to run.

The /compat symlink should just die.  compat bits should not be on the
root partition, so why are we pretending?  /usr/compat should be the only
supported place.  Peroid.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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