From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 12 12:37: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from server12.safepages.com (server12.safepages.com [216.127.146.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE9037B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from surfbest.net (27-pool3.ras11.vahen.tii-dial.net [206.148.74.27]) by server12.safepages.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7811413644D; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3C409E44.7020300@surfbest.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:36:20 -0500 From: Ken Stailey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011222 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Eldridge Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator References: <200201121940.g0CJe7Z25243@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alan Eldridge wrote: >The following reply was made to PR ports/33818; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Alan Eldridge >To: Kenneth Stailey >Cc: >Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator >Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:29:55 -0500 > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:01:03AM -0800, Kenneth Stailey wrote: > > > >>Description: > > Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator. Disregart prior > >submission. The image is rather large. 45MB compressed download and > >170MB uncompressed. The port tries not to store two uncompressed copies > >during installation ever. > > Urghh ... you know that all the stuff in libexec is read-only, right? > > Just thought of that.... > > How's this supposed to be run? Root only? > > Maybe you ought to put the disk image in, oh, ${PREFIX}/spool/klh10/images. > Then at least it's somewhere that's expected to be writable. > > Anybody else got any ideas on that? > -- > Alan Eldridge > Pmmfmffmmfmp mmmpppppffmpmfpmpppff PmpMpmMpp ppfppp MpfpffmppmppMmpFmmMpm > mfpmmmmmfpmpmpppff. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > kn10-ks only runs from the directory with its support files and emulator image. Support files do not get modified during emulator execution. You could put the emulator image under /var and use a symlink since it does change as ITS runs. I tested this OK. Unfortuately, not that many systems have enough /var space to do this I'd imagine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message