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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:20:01 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Ben" <ben@cahostnet.com>
Cc:        "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) 
Message-ID:  <200103130120.f2D1K1e06848@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Ben" <ben@cahostnet.com>  of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:08:15 EST." <02f201c0ab0e$a5cf6c20$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> 

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"Ben" writes:
> 
> Sometimes doing things in Red Hat confuses the
> heck out of me but like I said they support pretty much everything.

Do they really *support* everything, or do they simply throw everything
in? Big difference. Shortly after dumping Linux for FreeBSD was at a
computer show where two guys were gawking at the various Linux
distributions at a CD vendor. They were trying to decide which to buy by
comparing the list of included stuff and favoring gcc 2.7.1.2 over
2.7.1.1. That's what I think of these days when somebody says, "bean
counter". For nit pickers, I think the exact example was of a 2.6.3 gcc,
and if I remember correctly 2.7.1.2 was nothing but the Linux version of
2.7.1.1.

> I tried installing the Linux support for BSD and it always failed
> during the installation process.

/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base is one of the most complex FreeBSD 
ports. For the Linux binaries that it uses to install more linux 
binaries you have to have Linux in the FreeBSD kernel, first. Oops, I 
see the pkg-install component tries to load the Linux kld. 

% kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    3 0xc0100000 28a3ec   kernel
 3    1 0xc0cbc000 11000    linux.ko
 4    1 0xc0cb9000 2000     blank_saver.ko
% 


--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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