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From: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell)
Subject: linux/ELF in FreeBSD -- how?
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how do i get linux/ELF emultation running?  

if i need to upgrade to 2.2, can someone give me a very general
overview of how to do that?  i've tried (a) getting the binary
distribution and installing it (b) getting sources and doing make world
(c) installing from floppy install.  none of these have worked at all.
i am not interested in upgrading, to be precise, a fresh new install
would be fine.  

details:
(a) left me with a completely disfunctional system since, i think, a
lot of things change in /etc/ and they were not updated.  i might try
this again.... (b) make world completely did not work.  errors like ld
does not understand -O option led me to believe that make world for 2.2
was not meant to be done in 2.1 environment...  (c) 2.2-960612 snapshot
install floppy won't work with any of my 4 ethernet cards (DEC 21040
based SMC/2 NEx000's/3c509) (no probe for ep, both ed's timeout, and
de gives no errors and is probed, but is not pingable, and lights do
not blink).  2.1-R install floppy won't get passed changing to
/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-960612-SNAP dialogue, or else bails saying it can't
find the root image (which lead me to believe 2.2 was not meant to be
installed using 2.1R boot floppy) (de works fine with the 2.1 kernel).

i'd love to read some documentation on the subject, but couldn't find
any.  there is a bit about an upgrade optoion in the 2.2-SNAP directory,
but (jordan) there was absolutely not a word about what to actaully do
to run this upgrade?

(help!)

thanks, steve