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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

:-)

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