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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux/Elf Emulation Date: 16 Oct 1996 04:25:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 31 Message-ID: <542gmd$o2r@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <32647535.167EB0E7@mybutt.com> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.102 (bkogawa) The God Of Life <kane@mybutt.com> writes: >Recent projects have brought me to attempt to implement Linux >emulation on to my server. The primary reason for this is to run XQuake. >I followed all available literature and manuals on the subject and >installed the library port as well as recompiled the kernel for "options >COMPAT_LINUX" and with no avail. Here is some required info. [...] >> xquake >/home/kane/xquake: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture. > If you have any info available on my problem please respond. Am I >missing ELF compatibility. Is it because of these lines in my kernal >precompile config? > machine "i386" > cpu "I586_CPU" >or am I just not going to be able to run it. Knowing FreeBSD there >should be a way. >Thanx As far as I know, 2.1.5 does not have ELF support by default, and I'm not sure that it would be easy to add it. 2.2-CURRENT is supposed to have sufficient support to run Quake for Linux. I'm not running it, so I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but the reports are good (some ISPs are using the Quake server for Linux under FreeBSD). -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>