FreeBSD README

[Luke]

The FreeBSD agent will provide this README once the installation is complete. I have found it helpful on occasions to have a copy before installation, so here is a copy.


This is the README file The Backup Professional
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*** IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FreeBSD 4.7 and 6.1 USERS ***

a) FreeBSD 4.7 needs some extra libraries on your machine.
It is sets of libraries "compat3x" and "compat4x"

Without those libraries you will have troubles with installation and usage the software. Before the installation please
perform those manual operations.

1. Edit the file /etc/make.conf and add folowing strings there:

COMPAT3X=yes
COMPAT4X=yes

If file /etc/make.conf does not exist on your system, create it.

2. Then as root:
"cd /usr/src/lib/compat"
"make obj"
"make"
"make install"


If you don't have /usr/src/lib/compat directory on your machine:

1. Download extra libraries from FreeBSD FTP site:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.com/pub/FreeBSD/re...4.20020925.tgz
ftp://ftp.freebsd.com/pub/FreeBSD/re...i386-4.6.2.tgz

or from Unitrends FTP site:

ftp://209.92.4.30/bp/patches/compat3...4.20020925.tgz
ftp://209.92.4.30/bp/patches/compat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz

2. "su root"
"umask 022"
"pkg_add compat3x-i386-4.4.20020925.tgz"
"pkg_add compat4x-i386-4.6.2.tgz"
Rename /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh.sample to *.sh
"sync"
Reboot the system.

b) FreeBSD 6.1 needs some extra libraries on your machine.
It is sets of libraries "compat4x" and "compat5x"
Without those libraries you will have troubles with installation and usage the software. Before the installation please
perform those manual
operations.

1) Make sure that your machine has internet access.

2) As root:
# pkg_add -r compat4x-i386
# pkg_add -r compat5x-i386

Or istead of pkg_adds yo can do following.
# cd /usr/ports/misc/compat4x
# make; make install
# cd /usr/ports/misc/compat5x
# make; make install


3) Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and add folowing strings there:
compat4x_enable="yes"
compat5x_enable="yes"

4) Reboot your system.

5) Change directory to /usr/local/lib/compat then run following commands:
# ln -s libc.so.4 libc.so.3
# ln -s libxpg4.so.3 libxpg4.so.2

[jwunitrends]

Is freeBSD 8.1 supported, and if so, what steps should I follow to get the backup agent to install correctly? So far, I have been unable to install the backup agent on a system running freeBSD 8.1.

Thanks