=========================================================================== $NetBSD: MESSAGE.NetBSD,v 1.5 2004/02/28 00:49:03 lukem Exp $ In order to be able to run the JVM, you will need to compile your kernel with the following options: options COMPAT_LINUX Then, you need to add the following line to your /etc/fstab: procfs /proc procfs rw,linux Furthermore, the data segment size set by your shell's 'ulimit' builtin must be at least 262144 -- please refer to your shell's manual page for details. You may want to read ${PREFIX}/README for details about running this JDK. In a nutshell you may want to set the following in your shell environment: JAVA_HOME to ${PREFIX} PATH to include ${PREFIX}/bin ===========================================================================