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To: Sean Robertson <srob@awod.com>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sysinstall considered harmful! 
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:42:22 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.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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