From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 21:29:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.tricity.wsu.edu (beta.tricity.wsu.edu [192.220.200.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0B337B403 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 21:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by beta.tricity.wsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA04066; Mon, 27 May 2002 21:29:19 -0700 From: Mark Smith Message-Id: <200205280429.VAA04066@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Subject: Re: bynari with linux emulation? To: jerry_murdock@yahoo.com (Jerry Murdock) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Cc: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) In-Reply-To: <20020528033301.39572.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> from "Jerry Murdock" at May 27, 2002 08:33:01 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I downloaded it and am looking at it... They don't use the linux > > RPM installation stuff. Nope, it's basicly a tarball. I'm not sure I > > like that trying to run with linux emulation. I may pull it apart and > > see what makes it tick. > > > This may be basic, but a few tips to consider if trying to run Linux based > install scripts I've learned from getting some linux stuff working... > > 1: They may be looking for Redhat style rc.d/init.d directory structures, which > you may need to create. > 2: Run any install scripts using the linux sh. > 3: Make sure you have the linux versions installed of any utilities needed by > the scripts. If not, something like "cat" may dump info in (or look in) /path > instead of /compat/linux/path. > > I usually start off with a copy of the linux sh with the path set explicitly to > the "/compat/linux/..." variants so that hopefully the fbsd versions won't be > found. > > Scripts that hard code paths can still grab the FBSD versions though. The hard coded paths problem is what I'm worried about. I guess I'll just have to dump the system to tape. Not like that's a bad thing. ;) Mark -- ========================================================================= UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message