From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 08:47:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23165 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (snitterly.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.221.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23156 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knersus.nanoteq.co.za (int_smtp.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.219.20]) by snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA21363; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:50:30 GMT Received: from NANOTEQ-1/SpoolDir by knersus.nanoteq.co.za (Mercury 1.21); 18 Jun 97 17:50:39 (SAST) Received: from SpoolDir by NANOTEQ-1 (Mercury 1.30); 18 Jun 97 17:50:00 (SAST) From: "Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen" Organization: Nanoteq To: support , Martin Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:49:59 +200 Subject: Re: help Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <7CF6B056D5@knersus.nanoteq.co.za> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Date: 18 Jun 97 14:43:18 +0200 > From: Martin > Subject: help > To: support > Hi freeBSD people: > > I purchased freeBSD in a bookstore and found it to be great. But I encountered the following problem: > While trying to install Netscape (for LINUX) the BSD returns with a message that ELF is an unknown binary-format. And while trying to install the german Star-Office package the installation fails du > How can I install these packages? > I am looking forward to response. > Martin > > I hope you have 2.2 RELEASE or higher. Make sure that you have the Linux emulation installed. It is in the ports/packages. Edit /etc/rc.conf or /etc/sysconfig (depending on your version) and make sure there is a line saying linux=yes. Then reboot. You can also load the linux emulation on the fly, by typing at a prompt. The other way to go is to install the bsd version of netscape, which is on their site under the name netscape-unknown-bsd....... Good luck pierre PS. I'm not sitting in front of my FreeBSD box at the moment, so I hope my recollection from memory is accurate :) P. van Leeuwen Electronic Engineer pvl@nanoteq.com http://www.nanoteq.co.za