Re: Linux Compat

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:14:37PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote:

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote:

On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:
Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
the base? I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't
see anything mentioned.

Did you try the handbook?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html

Maybe I didn't ask my question well. What I meant to ask is - is this
a change that I missed somewhere. I used to get asked during the
installation process for a yes/no and I did not see it this time.

You are very diplomatic.

Last time I ran sysinstall - installing a new system about a month ago,
in late January 2007 - it *did* ask me the Linux question. This was
probably from the 6.1R CD set.

Yes, I think I remember seeing it during a 6.1 install, though the last
one of those I did was several months ago.

I think that got some runtime libraries installed along with the
linux_enable="YES" plunked in the rc.conf for me.

Did you run sysinstall after installing a working system, or was this a
new install on bare hardware?

Well, sort of bare hardware. I wiped out and overwrote a Suse installation
that came with the machine (a Dell 2950 with Perc I raid).

I am aware that I can do it myself later - say I had said no during
sysinstall or whatever.

Not everyone bothers to read your entire message throughly. Been there.

Yah, I miss parts of people's posts in the rush to respond often enough too.

////jerry


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