From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 10:19:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05956 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:19:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05949 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01698; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:18:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:18:31 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch To: Al Stodolski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Applications (even free ones)! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- There is another issue, the fact that each type of partition has a label number. if the partition is labeled "linux" then it will not work. this is easy remedied by using either fbsd's or linux's fdisk and changing the partition label. -P ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Al Stodolski wrote: > When an application is referring to OS types, and Linux is mentioned can I also assume FreeBSD as well? > > For example, Partition Magic wants to know what type of OS it will be making a partion for. One of the choices is Linux. Can I assume that this partition will be the same for FreeBSD as for Linux ? What do I need to know to install an "app" intended for Linux but will be targeted for FreeBSD. Is it just the ELF vs a.out issue or are there other considerations. > > Thanks for any and all help. > > Albert Stodolski > stodolsk@symbol.com > > alternate: stodolsk@pb.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNjS9BsGd9jPuKvqVAQGJoQQAu+itbMpLhf8HivEBpAFbDZA2J/2imDGl Y4N7wH/zHwkmqFlq09jud0uwYdVgc8ukxSRj8qrkG+u59wZ84kP2foUCmb4uUgq2 k3HhSFPnKtC+LhJ9Z/BY/2vsgLr+rfaTlutK+NPQHehbX5VY3n71IaBrL19eXGJ0 5R+OYdjSvTs= =U3s5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message