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From: martin@onyx.dirnet.com (Martin Spott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux emulation
Date: 1 Nov 1996 22:36:01 GMT
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Andreas Lohr (andreas@marvin.RoBIN.de) wrote:
> I would like to use the linux emulation but something is not
> working as expected:
[...]

Emulation stuff goes in /compat/<emulation>/, which means that you should
copy a Linux' /lib/ into /comapt/linux/lib/, same with all the other shared
lib stuff. Try to mount a Linux' root file system to FreeBSD's
/compat/linux/ via NFS, this works.

Martin.
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