Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:02:07 -0400 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Little problems from Havana] Message-ID: <324C40CF.1729@scsn.net>
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:01:15 -0400
From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net>
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To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Subject: Re: Little problems from Havana
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Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> Couldn't this also be removing the gzip'd executable support? I don't
> remember the exact line, but I think it even says it in the GENERIC kernel
> that if you remove it, /stand/sysinstall won't work.
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Larry Dolinar wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:36:34 +600 CDT
> > From: Larry Dolinar <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
> > To: owner-questions@freebsd.org
> > Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Little problems from Havana
> >
> > | From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net>
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > | > On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote:
> > | >
> > | > > I built a custom kernel, doing nothing else but eliminating the support
> > | > > for the hardware I don't have. I faced not problems doing that, it worked
> > | > > well from the very begining but I could no longer run the program
> > | > > /stand/sysinstall 'cause it cries with a: "Exec format error. Wrong
> > | > > architecture".
> > | >
> > | > Don't run sysinstall then. You don't really need it. What are you trying
> > | > to do that requires sysinstall?
> >
> > Are you sure you didn't also kill some of the "cpu" lines as well? The first
> > time I built a kernel (2.0.5) I only enabled the 486 and had the exact
> > same problem. Try leaving "I386_CPU" in along with your CPU of choice,
> > recompile, and see what happens. Not as efficient, but assuming it works,
> > you can find the sysinsall code and recompile it later.
> >
> > corections welcomed,
> > larry
> >
> > ps. Sorry for the humor in the other post: where is ee? I never saw a reply.
> >
Please be careful with the attributions... There is nothing in this
message written
by me. My advice (in an earlier message) was to replace the line:
pseudo-device gzip
In his config file.
Donald J. Maddox
(dmaddox@scsn.net)
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