Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:14:25 +0200 (CEST) From: kama <kama@pvp.se> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: linux_base Gentoo. Message-ID: <20060511095842.C76846@ns1.as.pvp.se>
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Why do we not use gentoo as the default linuxbase? Its so easy to set up, no dependencies. This is how I install it. (No port needed) fetch ftp://mirror.of.choice/pub/os/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/stages/stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2 mkdir /compat/linux cd /compat/linux tar xjpf /path/to/stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2 cp /etc/resolv.conf etc Thats it. After that you can 'chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash' and start using emerge to install portages. I have not used emerge to compile a new kernel and world yet. Dont know if I never will need that either. rm /compat/linux and unpack a newer version of gentoo. Some things are borken. like, you cant ping from the chrooted env, but wget works. We really need to get a updated versions of the linux syscalls. Unfortunately I dont have the knowledge and time to get into that work. (As most of the peoples) I have not tested X utils under this emulation since I dont have any desktops running freebsd. I have used this setup for quite some time now (a year or so) and use it when developing linuxbinaries. I also run gameservers with this installation method. At least we will get rid of the compatibility problems with binaries not working anymore on the old linuxbases. /Bjorn
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