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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:01:40 -0600
From:      Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
To:        "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
Cc:        Nader Turki <nturki@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linprocfs
Message-ID:  <20010322170140.B9880@cec.wustl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010322182700.A28850@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>; from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:27:00PM %2B0100
References:  <F36Z9rWjAKYVpMmOlbc0000a041@hotmail.com> <20010322182700.A28850@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>

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Doesn't linprocfs have to be in the kernel, for instance with the line:

options     LINPROCFS

I'm just guessing, I've never used the linux proc fs.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:27:00PM +0100, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Nader Turki wrote:
> > hi all,
> > i just installed vmware and i got this error when i tried running it:
> > 
> > [ozzy@athlon]:~$ vmware
> > ************************************************************
> > It seems Linux procfs is not mounted on /compat/linux/proc.
> > VMware does not work without Linux procfs mounted.
> > 
> > For details, see linprocfs(5) manpage.
> > ************************************************************
> > 
> > how do i mount Linux procfs?
> >
> By adding the line
> 
>     linproc         /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs       rw 0 0
> 
> to your /etc/fstab and then mount it.
> 
> For details, see linprocfs(5) manpage ;-)
> 
> Karel.
> 
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