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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:02:07 -0400
From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:01:15 -0400
From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net>
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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)