On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:14:37PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > > > >>On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed: > >>>Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of > >>>the base? I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't > >>>see anything mentioned. > >> > >>Did you try the handbook? > >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html > > > >Maybe I didn't ask my question well. What I meant to ask is - is this > >a change that I missed somewhere. I used to get asked during the > >installation process for a yes/no and I did not see it this time. > > You are very diplomatic. > > Last time I ran sysinstall - installing a new system about a month ago, > in late January 2007 - it *did* ask me the Linux question. This was > probably from the 6.1R CD set.
Yes, I think I remember seeing it during a 6.1 install, though the last one of those I did was several months ago. > > I think that got some runtime libraries installed along with the > >linux_enable="YES" plunked in the rc.conf for me. > > Did you run sysinstall after installing a working system, or was this a > new install on bare hardware? Well, sort of bare hardware. I wiped out and overwrote a Suse installation that came with the machine (a Dell 2950 with Perc I raid). > >I am aware that I can do it myself later - say I had said no during > >sysinstall or whatever. > > Not everyone bothers to read your entire message throughly. Been there. Yah, I miss parts of people's posts in the rush to respond often enough too. ////jerry > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"