From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 15: 0:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F9A37B407; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Sturm@klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5OM0I202660; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:00:18 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: , , Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <20010624102438Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Hello. Well, I did. And I did a lot in installing things by hand. It seems, that chrooting is not necessary as you describe, but within the distribution there is a setup program which is statically linked and it is not willing to operate. I don't know whether I can offer this to check due license restrictions. I did a 'kind of installation' by hand and now I need to set several shell variables the right way. Hope that works. But tomorrow ... I'm tired :-) Dear Jordan. If you're interested in the Borland binary that fails, I can send it to you by Email, but it is huge ... Thanks, Oliver :>From: "Hartmann, O." :>Subject: Re: :>Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:30 +0200 (CEST) :> :>> At the moment, all seems to 'crash' on simple things like lacking in :>> several little stupid standard programs which are not part of the :>> Linux base port as nativ Linux code, instead, UNIX respective FreeBSD :>> has all the little programs like awk and more. I will inform the list, of :>> course and I hope I can offer a way to do it the easy way ... :> :>Why would they need to be linux native? Things like awk and cp can :>simple be used from FreeBSD (even by Linux binaries) unless you do :>something crazy like chroot to /compat/linux. That's not necessary, :>you simply run a linux shell so that /compat/linux is first in the :>search order. :> :>- Jordan :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message