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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:30:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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.BSI.3.94.960803204042.23428A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960804123656.14275A-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>

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On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, HMG coA reductase wrote:

> 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

I did it from a system running 2.0.5, but I think I did it with the
2.1 cdrom.  I have the 2.0.5 cdrom at home and can't find emacs on
it; I can't check the 2.1 live file system because it's at the office
and it's not in the cdrom drive.  But my 2.0.5 file system (where
/usr is now mounted on /free2) shows this:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  32 May 13 22:33 /free2/local/bin/emacs -> 
	/cdrom/usr/local/bin/emacs-19.28

as well as other links relating to emacs.  You should be able to find
this on the cdrom with find /cdrom -name "emacs*".

			Annelise
  



 
> 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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