From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 5:15:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF58337B416 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 05:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g37CFXu65947; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 08:15:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 08:15:33 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Chris van der Pennen Cc: freebsd-current list Subject: Re: Regarding linux binary compatibility... Message-ID: <20020407081533.A65818@blackhelicopters.org> References: <004f01c1de26$57df9ac0$fa00a8c0@nightshade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004f01c1de26$57df9ac0$fa00a8c0@nightshade>; from chrisvdp74656@yahoo.com.au on Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:51:13PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:51:13PM +0930, Chris van der Pennen wrote: > ...can I simply mount my linux partition and point it to the Linux drive's > /lib, /usr/lib, etc.? > > If so, can you give me a brief overview of the pointing-to part? I have an article on exactly this on O'Reilly: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Short answer: yes, with some hoops to jump through. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message