Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:34:06 -0700 From: "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> To: "Antoine Solomon" <asolomon15@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: about linux emulation Message-ID: <001701c5c955$42b1d140$0c64a8c0@opteron> References: <ec79d7610510040714o41da617er601f6f58c41007f2@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Antoine Solomon" <asolomon15@gmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:14 AM Subject: about linux emulation Is it possible to chroot into a fully functional linux environment on freebsd? -- Hi Antoine, I don't know if this fully answers your question as I barely understand the chroot process myself. I wanted to install Coldfusion on FreeBSD (Ain't gonna work but I tried). First it complained about FreeBSD not being supported so I'm like yah so. But what next? I was putzing around someplace and found something that went in the lines like this chroot /compat/linux/ /bin/bash And to my surprise I was chrooted. I then re-ran the install process for Coldfusion and it didn't complain until the very end where it said can't find 'ps' and some other little gizmo (I think it was top). I was bummed because it seems that ps and top are not part of the linux emulation. Admittedly I'm using linux_base-rh-7.3. But anyway I was chrooted. One last thing in the path there is also a linux chroot. So my guess is that you could chroot with success but wont know until you use some application that requires some missing element, in my case 'ps' and 'top.' Hope that helps. ~Mr. Anderson
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