From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 04:39:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA11057 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 04:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eris.cs.umb.edu (rlb@eris.cs.umb.edu [158.121.104.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA11052 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 04:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eris.cs.umb.edu id AA26958 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@freebsd.org); Mon, 29 Apr 1996 07:43:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 07:43:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert L. Bailey" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: iBCS2 WP ; slices Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Has anyone been able to install the SCO version of WordPerfect under FreeBSD-2.1.0-R? I have the devices made for spx, socksys, X0R, etc., along with having IBCS2=YES in my sysconfig file and options "COMPAT_IBCS2" defined in my kernel. Does anyone have any ideas? The errors which I recieved are two fold. 1st, the install script complains that it cannot open /dev/socksys because address not found, and the second is that it cannot open DISPLAY :0.0 I think that the error about not being able to open /dev/socksys originates from not finding the address for DISPLAY. I have tried seting the DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 as done so in a linux installation, along with logging into localhost before starting X, and I have xhost + set. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. Bob Bailey P.S. In the kernel configuration I had to define: options "COMPAT_IBCS2" and not options COMPAT_IBCS2 Also the devices which are needed for running SCO bins are not generated by default. It might be nice if these devices were created at install time, since the option to run iBCS2 is in the /etc/sysconfig file -- or atleast a note concerning the generation of these devices should be added to the sysconfig file next to the IBCS2=YES option. In a non-related issue, I have one more question. I have just changed a dos partition to a freebsd partition. I wasn't able to find the docs regarding how to generate slices. What I ended up doing was to boot from the install disks and "re-install" the diskpartition and label section. This required me to select the FLOPPY media, which of course I did not put the disks in to so that it wouldn't install over my current system. I would like to know what the commands were that were executed when I did this. Specificaly when the slices were made for this new partition, and how the new FS was created. The docs refer to making an entry in a disktab file and then running newfs, however the install program doesn't use the disktab file (i think), and the slices were not created by which I could run the newfs exec on the old dos partition. Can anyone tell me how do do this manualy? Thanks again, Bob Bailey UMASS/Boston UNIX: rlb@cs.umb.edu IRC Nic: rlb, cons32 UMASS/Boston VAX/VMS: cons32@umbsky.cc.umb.edu IRC: #linux -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAy+7TBYAAAEEAMn8BhZ5vSuhBLY1Dcf9VeOLKu/lwgUm6jgZD6361DWLncUh Xuyir46vIIdl9krEudMwC01CnOULIwUdX6/S+kr+C/Inl6e86CJpRm4ZHBFTjov9 xK15bz5V7xpaD825eUUpu1sOcPS9hc9myHbbusaPlZxAOnzfi9sBOI70RqZdAAUR tCtSb2JlcnQgTC4gQmFpbGV5IDxjb25zMzJAdW1ic2t5LmNjLnVtYi5lZHU+ =E+in -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----