Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 12:01:15 -0500 From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com> To: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov <alexei@albion.loach.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /compat code on -stable Message-ID: <199605041702.MAA12558@sierra.zyzzyva.com> In-Reply-To: alexei's message of Fri, 03 May 1996 15:27:33 -0700. <199605032227.PAA11331@albion.loach.org>
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> >
> > Could someone point me to a howto on running IBCS2, Linux and perhaps
> > BSDI binaries? I searched in the various FAQ's, Handbook, etc. and
> > can't come up with the magic.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> If you are told somehting and they don't send it to the list, would you
> mind cc-ing me?
>
> --Alexei
I figured this out finally. I'm CCing the list since I did not find
this information in one location, rather spread between several
different mails in the archive. My main motivation was running
Netscape, but I would also like to know what is required for IBCS2
and BSDI.
I'm running a mostly -stable system.
What I did...
* Create /compat/linux
* Install the linux_lib-1.0.tgz package found on freefall
* recompiled kernel with 'options COMPAT_LINUX' (necessary?)
* loaded the /lkm/linux_mod.o with the following:
modstat | grep _linux || modload -u -o /tmp/linux_mod -e \
linux_init -q /lkm/linux_mod.o
* Added the following to environment (/etc/profile)
RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf; export RESOLV_HOST_CONF
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB; export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls; export XNLSPATH
XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults; export XAPPLRESDIR
* Added the following to /compat/linux/etc/host.conf
order hosts, bind
* Installed nls.dir from Netscape distribution
Gotchas along the way....
* I had to remove the Linux ELF support that I had been using with
NetBSD. I assume that I cannot run Linux ELF under FreeBSD.
* Netscape got EOT with the nls.dir that I had been using from R6.
Known problem, but did not seem to bother it on NetBSD.
* Figuring out syntax to modload LKMs
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