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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!lilly.ping.de!infinity.ping.de!usenet From: Andre Grosse Bley <gandalf@infinity.ping.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recompiled kernel and sysinstall... Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 12:11:16 +0100 Organization: Me? Organized? I see, you've never met me! Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31416754.167EB0E7@infinity.ping.de> References: <4gu1ue$g5r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.ping.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) DaveChaos wrote: > I recently recompiled my kernel in order to speed the booting process, > enable a few extra options, etc. and now I cannot run sysinstall. > When I type ./sysinstall in the /stand directory I get a message: > ./sysinstall: Exec format error. Wron Architecture. sysinstall is a GZIPped a.out. I'd bet you removed "pseudo-device gzip #Exec gzipped a.out's" from your kernel configuration file. Another solution is to uncompress sysinstall: gzip -d -S "" sysinstall