[1008] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: netscape not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Aug 24 14:41:55 1996
To: Eric N Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU, cwis-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:42:48 EDT."
<199608241442.KAA04567@excelsior.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:37:59 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Why is netscape 3.0 that worked on NetBSD suddenly not working any
> more?
You can still run "netscape-beta" from the outland locker, I think.
When the infoagents locker maintainers upgraded to netscape 3.0, they
used a Linux binary for the NetBSD version. Unfortunately, NetBSD 1.1
doesn't run Linux-ELF binaries properly (it's a small bug, but the
problem remains), so this might have worked on a test machine, but it
won't work on most people's machines.
To cwis-help: you should use a BSDI binary for the NetBSD binary
directory, instead of a Linux ELF binary.
