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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape under 2.0.5?
Date: 15 Jul 1995 03:37:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <steve.805757720@ichips.intel.com>,
Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to get Netscape 1.1N to work under FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE, using
>the BSDI port of Netscape.  This should, as far as I know, work in theory.
>The problem I see is that when Netscape starts up, it says "uname() failed"
>and complains about not knowing what the machine name is it's running on.

This is due to some quirks that appeared in the BSDI emulation picture,
which we've since fixed.  For now, however, you can ignore the problem
as it doesn't impair the functioning of Netscape.

					Jordan