From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 15:16:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA15294 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nol.net (root@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15289 Tue, 7 May 1996 15:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dazed.nol.net (blh@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by nol.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21267; Tue, 7 May 1996 17:14:41 -0500 (CDT) X-AUTH: NOLNET SENDMAIL AUTH Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:14:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" To: Gary Palmer cc: dale , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall In-Reply-To: <6895.831505704@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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