Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:14:37 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> Subject: Re: Linux Compat Message-ID: <20070227225950.T710@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20070227223615.GD65301@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20070227212419.GA65273@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45E4A753.2020508@mac.com> <20070227223615.GD65301@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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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. > 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? > 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. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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