From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 22:37:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20239 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [203.23.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20231 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.2/8.7) id RAA20114 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:06:18 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:06:18 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199901300636.RAA20114@atdot.dotat.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SysVR4 emulator Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just committed the FreeBSD svr4 emulator, which has been built by adapting the stirling work of Christos Zoulas from the NetBSD project to FreeBSD. I hope I haven't left anything out or broken the world, but I'm sure I'll hear about it if I have :-) To use it: 1. Add "pseudo-device streams" to your kernel config file and rebuild, reboot. 2. Build and install the svr4 module in /sys/modules/svr4 3. Type "svr4" to start it up. 4. Grab compat_sol26.tar.gz or compat_svr4.tar.gz from http://www.freebsd.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4 and install them in /compat/svr4 5. Run "sh SVR4_MAKEDEV all" in /compat/svr4/dev 6. Mount a Solaris/x86 CD-ROM on /cdrom 7. Brand any executables you want to run 8. See if they work. It's early days yet, folks -- You'll probably have trouble getting 100% functionality out of most things (specifically, poll() on a socket doesn't look like it works at the moment, so Netscape doesn't work (among other things)). Patches will be appreciated. I'll be putting the compat_*.tar.gz archives into /usr/share/examples with a README file RSN (I haven't written a Makefile for them yet, though, hence the delay). Regards, - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1958-3414 ------------- Fax: +61-8-83034403 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message