Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:26:30 -0500 From: Jack Sherwood <sherwoodj@home.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.org, dwhite@FreeBSD.org, "Sherwood, John E. \"Jack\"" <sherwooj@spawar.navy.mil>, jimmy@cs.cofc.edu Subject: Try #2: Linux emulator not installed in the kernal Message-ID: <3A9F7556.2C038F45@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102281051560.12151-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Thank you Doug for writing! I tried what you said, performing a package add command on linux_base-6.1.tgz and that command worked fine, installing the package from the FreeBSDi CDROM, until the system noticed that the package was already installed. The same error as included below (e.g. no linux) still occurred. Departing a bit from the text of Greg Lehey's book, I eventually found the emulator directory and within that the linux_base directory which contained a Makefile. So, I entered "make". That make file eventually found glibc-2.1.2-11.i386.rpm from a Netherlands mirror site (ftp.nluug.nl) and then started looking for termcap-9.12.6-15.i386 then libtermcap.2.0.8-18.i386.rpm, then bash-1.14.7-16.i386.rpm, then ncurses-4.2-25.i386.rpm, and on and on .... Eventually, the console displayed => registering installation for rpm-2.5.6; => returning to build of linux_base-6.1; => patching for linux_base-6.1; => configuring for linux_base-6.1; and then command prompt. Success? Well, then same problem as below. I enter "linux" and get "linux: Command not found" and I enter "kldstat" and I get only "1 1 0xc100000 2eab04 kernel" After rebooting, still same thing. Still no linux from the FreeBSDi box that promises linux compatibility. Is this supposed to be hard (undocumented?). There is now a new directory called work that has 4 zero-length files ".build_done", ".configure_done", ".extract_done", ".patch_done" Still lost in Charleston. Sincerely, Doug White wrote: > The mailing list is 'questions@freebsd.org' btw. (note plural.) > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jack Sherwood wrote: > > > After an install with everything else working pretty well, the root > > console does not recognize # linux and #kldstat only shows "kernal" > > Just to make sure, I re-installed the entire system and selected "All" > > for distributions and made sure that I checked "yes" for the question - > > something like "Do you want Linux compatibility" Still no linux > > compatibility. > > Try installing the linux_base package (or if you're brave and have lots of > bandwidth, the port in ports/emulators/linux_base). This should give you > the basic libraries and populate your /compat/linux/ tree. linux_lib was > renamed to linux_base some time ago. > > I highly suggest using the package. :) > > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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