From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 10:09:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA17373 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17367 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA13141 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:09:15 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id RAA07106; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:31:25 +0100 (BST) To: Mark Mayo cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: BSDI binary support In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 00:14:03 EDT." Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:31:24 +0100 Message-ID: <7104.832264284@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo wrote in message ID : > Stupid question here: > > How compatible is FreeBSD (2.1R) with BSDI binaries? The reason I ask is > that I run the BSDI versions of the Netscape Proxy server with no > problems, but I just tried setting up the BSDI 2.1 binaries for the > Microsoft FrontPage server extensions (for web authoring..) and all of > their binaries just core dump on me.. what's the reason for this? The Netscape serevrs are mosly compiled on BSDI's BSD/OS 1.x, which FreeBSD 2.1 is compatabile with. For BSD/OS 2.x binaries, you will need to upgrade to a -stable version (complete upgrade, kernel & user-land also) built from sources dated after the 22nd of February (1996). (Or move to -current) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.