Re: How good is Linux Binary Compatibility?

2003-04-02 Thread taxman 
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:40 am, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've got a few minutes going spare so I thought that I would try and see
> if it is possible to bootstrap a chroot-ed debian install under 4.7. Has
> anyone tried this before with any luck or is this just going to be a
> learning expierence for me?

Unless the linux section of the handbook is out of date:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html#LINUXEMU-SYNOPSIS

linux compatibility is not to that level yet.  It doesn't implement all of the 
linux syscalls, especially those relating to intensive hardware use, so I'm 
guessing it wouldn't be able to run a whole system inside.

Tim

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Re: How good is Linux Binary Compatibility?

2003-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway 
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:40:05PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've got a few minutes going spare so I thought that I would try and see
> if it is possible to bootstrap a chroot-ed debian install under 4.7. Has
> anyone tried this before with any luck or is this just going to be a
> learning expierence for me?

I tried this several years ago..some of the system tools like fdisk
did not work, neither did XFree86.  This may have improved since.

Kris


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How good is Linux Binary Compatibility?

2003-04-01 Thread Rus Foster 
Hi All,
I've got a few minutes going spare so I thought that I would try and see
if it is possible to bootstrap a chroot-ed debian install under 4.7. Has
anyone tried this before with any luck or is this just going to be a
learning expierence for me?

Rgds

Rus

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