From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 07:44:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D451065693 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:44:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309E88FC1B for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1LzQwk-000LuH-SU; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:44:42 +0400 To: Mail References: <49F91224.4090708@mail.ru> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:44:42 +0400 In-Reply-To: <49F91224.4090708@mail.ru> (Mail's message of "Thu\, 30 Apr 2009 10\:51\:16 +0800") Message-ID: <12380245@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to install vmware-server on freebsd 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:44:44 -0000 On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:16 +0800 Mail wrote: > Good day to everybody, > I have a problem with installation vmware-server 2 for linux on my > freebsd 7.1. i install it from rpm. before it, i installed > linux_base_f9, load linux.ko, mount linprocfs. You may have problems with FreeBSD-7.1 and linux_base-f9. Welcome to emulation@ mail list. > When i run sudo rpm -i --ignoreos --dbpath /lib/var/rpm --root We don't use linux rpm database, it's behaviour is undefined, untested and unsupported. > /compat/linux vmware-server.XXXX.rpm i get this: > /bin/sh is needed to vmware-server.XXXX.rpm, > but there`s /bin/sh and /compat/linux/bin/sh. > What does it mean, and what i need to do to resolve this problem? You may do it like this: ----- # cd /compat/linux # rpm2cpio your_rpm_file | cpio -id --quiet ----- You'd better create a port and use it to install/deinstall that rpm file. HTH & WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve