on 7/6/01 10:22, Jared D. McNeill at jmcneill@invisible.yi.org wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Steven Sartorius wrote:
>> Subject line says it all.  When I run the 'install' binary it dies after a
>> few seconds with the message "cat: /proc/xxxxx/status: No such file or
>> directory" where xxxxx is a process number.  Anybody managed to get this
>> going?
> 
> Have you tried mounting procfs?
> 
> mkdir /proc
> mount -t procfs /proc /proc
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Jared
> 

I should have had my second cup of coffee....

Mounting /proc gets me further...now it complains that it needs a kernel
version 2.2 or better.  There was something in the archives about this from
someone trying to install Corel Wordperfect; I'll go did it up.

Thanks for your help,

Steve