On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:17:26PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What does kern and proc file systems do?  Do I need kern and proc file 
> systems mounted for proper netbsd operation?  If not, I rather would 
> like to get rid of proc and kern file system.  How essential is it to 
> have proc file system mounted for linux emulations?  I am trying to 
> install Sun's staroffice6.0 beta and it doesn't even start unless I have 
> proc file system mounted.  But, then, installation crashes.  Thank you.

kern isn't necessery. /proc is required if you're going to use linux
emulation (be sure to use 'mount -o linux').
See man mount_kernfs and mount_procfs for details.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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