From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 8 2:56:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ghostwheel.kithven.net (12-255-10-181.client.attbi.com [12.255.10.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F12637B405 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 33699 invoked by uid 0); 8 Mar 2002 10:58:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firestorm.kithven.net) (192.168.1.200) by 12-255-10-181.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 10:58:25 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020308034555.00a79778@mail.kithven.net> X-Sender: scivitri@kithven.net@mail.kithven.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 03:56:36 -0700 To: doc@FreeBSD.org From: Scivitri Scarzam Subject: Linux 'emulation' documentation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I've been trying to install/get working Linux Binary Compatibility on my FreeBSD machine. To this end, I've been following the instructions in the neighborhood of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html and have come across rather an interesting problem. I am, of course, doing this because I have a particular Linux binary I need to run, and I'm following the documentation because, well, my Unix/BSD skills aren't what I'd consider my ideal. And, as I rather expected, once I got everything installed my app complained about a missing shared library. So, I start reading what to do when this occurs, and am struck by a rather amusing problem in your documentation. See, it assumes I have access to a Linux box, to get these shared libraries off of. And, while trying to think who I know who might possibly be running a Linux box I could get these files from, I gradually start to wonder if everyone else has both a Linux and FreeBSD box, and just likes to run their Linux programs on their BSD machine to cause themselves needless grief. Because that's about the only reason I could see for the documentation seeming to not acknowledge any other option. Anyway, that's it for my middle of the night ramblings. I'll go try and find a Linux machine now. But I thought I ought to point out this bit of oddness, in passing. :) - Scivitri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message