NetBSD/i386 is transitioning from a.out to ELF between 1.4 and
	1.5. Sometime before the official release we should have a way
	to transparently run a.out binaries.

	When I upgraded my box I was lucky enough to be able to rebuild
	everything I needed from pkgsrc, and use an ELF XFree86 snapshot

	Is there anything you need thats not in pkgsrc? :)
	

                David/absolute
			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --


On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Eric McWhorter wrote:

> A coworker wants to try NetBSD/i386 to see if XFree86 works better
> than what he's using under NT.  I tried booting 1.4.2 but the GENERIC
> kernel complained about his "aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255
> SCBs".  His machine is pretty new, so I thought maybe the latest
> snapshot would support his host adapter.  The snapshot installed fine, 
> but when I move binaries from my 1.4.2 box he can't run them.  Most of 
> these binaries were originally compiled under 1.3.2 and seem to work
> fine on 1.4.2.
> 
> When he tries to run my binaries he gets:
> 
> No ld.so
> 
> This is with the May 28, 2000 snapshot.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Eric McWhorter
> Xerox Special Information Systems
> emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com
>