From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 21:55:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEC137B403 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 21:55:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6370228C10; Sun, 19 May 2002 00:55:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 00:55:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: George Georgalis Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: running a BSDI binary In-Reply-To: <20020518235321.A13374@trot.haven.dom> Message-ID: <20020519005016.B66512-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 May 2002, George Georgalis wrote: > I have to install a proprietary db, Velosis, 2.1 I think. It is intended to run on BSDI which I have a copy of, both are several years old. Will I be able to run the Velosis db on FreeBSD? What kind of issues will I have? (I believe it's a binary but haven't looked at it yet.) > // George > GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 > Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org > File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george Your best bet - if available as an option to you - is to compile from source. Is the binary the result of a "pkg_add" or are you simply copying files over individually? There may be some good support over at: http://www.windriver.com/press/html/bsdi_faq.html It sounds like BSD/OS (bsdi) doesn't keep pace with FreeBSD's open source community, so converting in either direction sounds difficult. Further, according to: http://www.vmunix.com/mark/FreeBSD/ "With version 2.2 FreeBSD has native support for Linux a.out and ELF binaries, SCO binaries, and perfect BSDI binary support." Ya never know until you try! ;-) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message