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From: gary@wheel.tiac.net (Gary D. Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape and NetBSD/i386 1.0?
Date: 17 Jan 1995 12:13:08 GMT
Organization: Brain Dead Innovations
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Message-ID: <3fgc8k$sfa@sundog.tiac.net>
References: <3fcgbc$jim@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> <J.GRINTER.95Jan16184249@orchard.cc.ic.ac.uk> <3fent9$nm4@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>
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In article <3fent9$nm4@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>,
Shawn Brown <shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
=>
=>Hmm. When I attempt to run this binary, I get:
=>
=>mugwump# ./netscape
=>./netscape: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
=>
=>This is with the netscape.i386-unknown-bsd.B10N.tar.Z file obtained directly
=>from ftp.mcom.com.
=>
=>I get this same error when trying to run statically linked FreeBSD binaries
=>as well. Do I need to include some compatibility option in my kernel config?
=>
I believe the magic kernel incantation is "options COMPAT_NOMID".
Actually, though, while I could run netscape, I was getting some odd
errors and it eventually crashes, so I gave up on it. I'm used to
Mosaic by now, anyway.
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts