From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 14:52:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA12799 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA12788 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id WAA06898 ; Tue, 7 May 1996 22:48:24 +0100 (BST) To: "Brett L. Hawn" cc: dale , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 16:24:14 CDT." Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 22:48:24 +0100 Message-ID: <6895.831505704@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Brett L. Hawn" wrote in message ID : > 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.