Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 22:48:24 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> Cc: dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <6895.831505704@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 16:24:14 CDT." <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507161820.17452C-100000@dazed.nol.net>
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"Brett L. Hawn" wrote in message ID <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507161820.17452C-100000@dazed.nol.net>: > On Tue, 7 May 1996, dale wrote: > > Hi, i recently recompiled the 2.1.0-RELEASE kernel for my machine's > > specifics and after succesfully doing so, i can no longer run > > /stand/sysinstall, it gives me the following error message when trying to > > do so: > > /stand/sysinstall: Exec format error. Wrong Archetecture. > > which is confusing, i don't think i upgraded anything but i am not > > positive, i'm fairly certain all my files came from > > ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/ > You need to recompile sysinstall to match your version of FreeBSD, if I > recall correctly 2.1.0 made some serious changes from 2.0.5 that caused alot > of the 2.0.5 bins to fail. Either that or install the compat libs. Nope. The exec format doesn't change between releases, and sysinstall is statically linked, so it's not a library problem. He most likely removed ``options gzip'' from his kernel. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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