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From: ctalbot@mica.meddean.luc.edu (Carlos J. Talbot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Binaries from other 386-UNIX'es ??
Date: 16 Dec 1993 10:25:49 -0600
Organization: Loyola University of Chicago
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Message-ID: <2eq26r$cce@mica.meddean.luc.edu>
References: <93Dec08.115841.4414@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> <hastyCHqxoL.1p4@netcom.com> <JKH.93Dec9111354@whisker.lotus.ie>
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In <JKH.93Dec9111354@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>In article <hastyCHqxoL.1p4@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

>   Well NetBSD can run BSDI's binaries and FreeBSD's binaries 
>   FreeBSD can not run NetBSD or so was the last time I heard;however,
>   there is a link option for NetBSD which is supposed to produce
>   FreeBSD compatible binaries.

>You're out of date, Amancio.  FreeBSD can run NetBSD and BSD/386
>(BSDI) binaries.

>				Jordan
>--
>(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I this true? What version of FreeBSD will run BSD/386 binaries? I'm
currently running 1.0-RELEASE and I can't execute a copy of Mosaic for
BSD/386. I had problems with FreeBSD 1.0.2 crashing on me every few hours. 

mica.meddean.luc.edu>ls -l Mosaic-2.0-bsdi
-rwxr-xr-x    1 ctalbot   2085691 Nov 10 10:03 Mosaic-2.0-bsdi
mica.meddean.luc.edu>file Mosaic-2.0-bsdi
Mosaic-2.0-bsdi: demand paged (first page unmapped) pure executable not stripped
mica.meddean.luc.edu>Mosaic-2.0-bsdi
./Mosaic-2.0-bsdi: cannot execute binary file


Hardware info:

ALR Evolution V Quadflex Pentium 60 MHZ w/ 32MB Ram
Builtin IDE controller
TWO EISA Adaptec 1742a controllers
NE2000 Ethernet card
ATI VLB Ultra Graphics Pro
1 80MEG IDE Western Digital
1 External SCSI-2 1gig Seagate
1 internal SCSI-1 1gig Micropolis
1 internal SCSI-1 600MEG Micropolis
1 internal SCSI-1 300MEG Micropolis


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