Have you read the compat_solaris manpage?

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Lasse [iso-8859-1] Hillerĝe Petersen wrote:

> December 1., I started in a new job as a system developer. The project I
> will be working on uses AIX, WebSphere and DB2 from IBM. Now, here at home,
> I'd like to play a little with DB2, as it looks to be a nice database
> system, which even can be used as a backend to IBM's SecureWay LDAP server,
> which I'd very much like to experiment with.
>
> IBM being what it is, DB2 is offered for a limited set of platforms, which
> does not include NetBSD. However, the Personal Developer's Edition is
> available for Linux; and the SecureWay LDAP server, including DB2 for the
> backend, is available for Solaris.
>
> It would seem to me that the Linux version should be capable of being made
> to run on NetBSD using Linux emulation. However, I'd rather use the Solaris
> stuff with the Solaris emulation, as it matches my work environment better.
> (I presume the Solaris version _will_ run on x86, but I'm not sure.)
>
> In either case, I have no experience using foreign OS emulation on NetBSD,
> except for packages installed from pkgsrc, and I can't seem to find any
> documentation on how to do installs myself, using rpm and whatever it is
> they use on Linux and Solaris.
>
> So if somebody could provide pointers to how-to's or general guidance on
> installing software to run with emulation, or even better: if someone has
> tried installing DB2 on NetBSD already, I'd be very grateful. Of course, if
> this is a futile quest that can only go wrong, I'd also appreciate being
> told.
>
> (If I had a machine to spare, I could install Solaris and get done with it,
> unfortunately that's not an option.)
>
>
> -Lasse
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