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From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: Larry Dolinar <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
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Subject: Re: Little problems from Havana
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Couldn't this also be removing the gzip'd executable support?  I don't
remember the exact line, but I think it even says it in the GENERIC kernel
that if you remove it, /stand/sysinstall won't work.

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Larry Dolinar wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:36:34 +600 CDT
> From: Larry Dolinar <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
> To: owner-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Little problems from Havana
> 
> |  From:           "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net>
> 
> |  > 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?
> 
> Are you sure you didn't also kill some of the "cpu" lines as well?  The first 
> time I built a kernel (2.0.5) I only enabled the 486 and had the exact 
> same problem.  Try leaving "I386_CPU" in along with your CPU of choice, 
> recompile, and see what happens.  Not as efficient, but assuming it works, 
> you can find the sysinsall code and recompile it later.
> 
> corections welcomed,
> larry
> 
> ps. Sorry for the humor in the other post: where is ee?  I never saw a reply.
>