Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 12:38:39 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Elton Chiu <echiu@direct.ca>, Jamil Weatherbee <support@cdrom.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 2.1 Live File System CD Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960804123656.14275A-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960801215631.17188A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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g'day annelise, i was really excited to hear that emacs was available on the Live FS ( ialwiz knew it to be a package that was some 11 MB in .tgz form). i searched my CD and could not find it. are you referring to FBSD-2.1.0R ? ivan On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > First I found the emacs binary on the live file system. I typed > "emacs" and got messages about files it could not find. These files > are all on the cdrom, but emacs expects to find them not in (for > example) /cdrom/local/lib/emacs but in /usr/local/lib/emacs. So I > used lndir (e.g., lndir /cdrom/local/lib/emacs /usr/local/lib/emacs) > to create shadow directories with symbolic links to the files on the > cdrom. With emacs this took several steps, as it quits (with the > message you need to solve the problem) as soon as there's something > it can't find. I think I had to use lndir three or four times before > everything necessary was linked. > > lndir is on the cdrom as part of X-Windows; you might want to first > find it (find /cdrom -name lndir) and copy it to /usr/local/bin. > X-Windows is another program you might want to try running from the > cdrom if you have really limited space; I haven't done that but I > imagine the process would be similar. >
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