From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 20 13:38:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084C237BFD0 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA66432; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA14899; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:35:12 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing linux_base 6.1 Message-ID: <20000220133512.I14682@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <56014.950933236@zippy.cdrom.com> <200002190431.UAA91173@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200002190431.UAA91173@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:31:06PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:31:06PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I wound up having to rm -rf /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux and > then doing the make install, which worked. It created /usr/compat/linux > and didn't seem to care that no /compat/linux existed. However, > other linux programs (e.g. the linux netscape) still look in /compat so > I had to create a softlink from /compat/linux to /usr/compat/linux > in order for netscape to run. The /compat symlink should just die. compat bits should not be on the root partition, so why are we pretending? /usr/compat should be the only supported place. Peroid. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message