From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 05:55:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA08134 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 05:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA08103 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 05:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id HAA21347; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:55:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199609261255.HAA21347@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Little problems from Havana To: dmaddox@scsn.net Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:55:10 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199609260520.BAA00801@rhiannon.scsn.net> from "Donald J. Maddox" at Sep 26, 96 01:20:00 am X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Donald J. Maddox said: > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > > > > > I built a custom kernel, doing nothing else but eliminating the support > > > for the hardware I don't have. I faced not problems doing that, it worked > > > well from the very begining but I could no longer run the program > > > /stand/sysinstall 'cause it cries with a: "Exec format error. Wrong > > > architecture". > > > > Don't run sysinstall then. You don't really need it. What are you trying > > to do that requires sysinstall? > > > Just in case you *really do* need to run it, put the line > > pseudo-device gzip > > back in your kernel config... Doesn't this sound a little like the custom kernel is a different version of OS than the rest of the system? Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030