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Date:      Tue, 7 May 1996 17:14:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507171347.20852B-100000@dazed.nol.net>
In-Reply-To: <6895.831505704@palmer.demon.co.uk>

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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> > 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.

DOH! :) I was under the impression the exec format had changed slightly..
guess I've been screwing with that last linux box too often. *grumbles
something about a.out vs ELF*

Brett




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