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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape and NetBSD 1.2 problem
Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:54:24 +0100
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In article <32B8B23F.4093@nbnet.nb.ca>,
	"Tomas T. Peiser, CET" <tpeiser@nbnet.nb.ca> writes:
> I have just installed Netscvape 3.01 to my NetBSD 1.2 machine, however
> when I try to run it, I very quickly get a "bad system call" error and
> it dies. 

It would be *very* helpful if you would have told us which NetBSD and
Netscape port you are using.

I suppose you are using the Linux version under NetBSD-i386. In this
case you can either remove "options COMPAT_SVR4" from your kernel
configuration file or better take the BSDI version(*) because the
Linux version only works stable with ancient version of "libc".

(*) The archive is called "netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-bsd.tar.gz".

-- 
Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de				http://home.pages.de/~tron/