Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:42:22 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Sean Robertson <srob@awod.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall considered harmful! Message-ID: <4878.818692942@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:24:46 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951211091923.8051A-100000@sumter.awod.com>
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> Perhaps this has been brought up before and I missed it, but, after > recompiling a kernel under 2.1, I can not even get sysinstall to work. > Instead, I get a message that says > > /stand/sysinstall: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture. > > I have tried this under two seperate ftp installations and recieved the > same results both times. > You removed the gzip code... sysinstall is a gzip'ed binary. Try: file /stand/sysinstall zcat < /stand/sysinstall > /tmp/foo file /tmp/foo :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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