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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:05:15 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To:        Vahe Khachikyan <vahe@fh-konstanz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting netscape to work on alpha
Message-ID:  <20020710100514.GT94279@cicely5.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <1026291538.3d2bf7525e737@vvl15.fh-konstanz.de>
References:  <1026291538.3d2bf7525e737@vvl15.fh-konstanz.de>

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:58:58AM +0200, Vahe Khachikyan wrote:
> 
> You should set
> osf1_enable="YES"
> in your /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Description:
> Each time you install the software it loads the OSF compatibility module
> automatically.
> It is ok untill you reboot the system.
> After reboot the OSF module will not be loaded automatically during the 
> startup, if the flag above isn't set in /etc/rc.conf
> Loader tries to load the Netscape binary and there is no corresponding
> kernel module which is responsible for OSF1 binaries. 
> Loader falls back to it's default /bin/sh, and tries to execute the 
> netscape binary as a shell script. 
> That's it you get the strange ASCII output :-)
> 
> BTW: I don't think that linux module is required for netscape.

It is required by the osf module.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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