From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 21:52:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA11538 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA11532 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA23488; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: HMG coA reductase cc: Elton Chiu , Jamil Weatherbee , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD 2.1 Live File System CD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > > >