Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:10:50 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> Subject: Re: Linux Compat Message-ID: <20070228161050.GB77005@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070227225950.T710@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20070227212419.GA65273@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E4A753.2020508@mac.com> <20070227223615.GD65301@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070227225950.T710@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:14:37PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > > > >>On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed: > >>>Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of > >>>the base? I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't > >>>see anything mentioned. > >> > >>Did you try the handbook? > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html > > > >Maybe I didn't ask my question well. What I meant to ask is - is this > >a change that I missed somewhere. I used to get asked during the > >installation process for a yes/no and I did not see it this time. > > You are very diplomatic. > > Last time I ran sysinstall - installing a new system about a month ago, > in late January 2007 - it *did* ask me the Linux question. This was > probably from the 6.1R CD set. Yes, I think I remember seeing it during a 6.1 install, though the last one of those I did was several months ago. > > I think that got some runtime libraries installed along with the > >linux_enable="YES" plunked in the rc.conf for me. > > Did you run sysinstall after installing a working system, or was this a > new install on bare hardware? Well, sort of bare hardware. I wiped out and overwrote a Suse installation that came with the machine (a Dell 2950 with Perc I raid). > >I am aware that I can do it myself later - say I had said no during > >sysinstall or whatever. > > Not everyone bothers to read your entire message throughly. Been there. Yah, I miss parts of people's posts in the rush to respond often enough too. ////jerry > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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