Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:12:45 -0600 From: Geoff Fritz <gfritz@gmail.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linuxulator, 32-bit executables, and linux-from-scratch Message-ID: <20090522011245.GA60713@dev.null> In-Reply-To: <20090521122911.00002a24@unknown> References: <20090520213830.GA13304@dev.null> <20090521122911.00002a24@unknown>
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:29:11PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 15:38:30 -0600 Geoff Fritz <gfritz@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In other words, can I get away with not loading the 32-bit FreeBSD > > libraries? > > You do not need the FreeBSD lib32 stuff. Good to know. > > I've tried searching, but wasn't able to find any relavent infomation > > about this next item. Has anyone tried a linux-from-scratch > > bootstrap process under Linuxulator to create a custom environment? > > Have a look at the gentoo linux_dist ports. This should be similar. I have a working linux emulation setup (using linux_base-f8-8_11) for running the flash plugin. Would installing the gentoo stuff clobber this at all? > > Are there any low-level problems that may prevent me from doing so? > > And, on a related note, is it possible to have multiple linux trees > > for emulation? That is, if I mount linsys and linproc correctly in > > another place (other than /compat/linux), will things work as > > expected? > > It will only work, if you chroot into those directories. > > Notes: > The linux base ports in FreeBSD are designed to play well > together with FreeBSD without chroot, you can not really chroot into > such an environment. > > What ever you do with linux from scratch, it will not play as well > out of the box with FreeBSD as the linux base ports. So if you go this > way, I suggest to only use the from scratch stuff with chroot (or in > a linux-only-jail). Chroot is what I had in mind, mostly. There are a few linux console apps that I was hoping to use under FreeBSD, but didn't want the overhead of full virtualization. Thanks for the info. -- Geoff
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