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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: X kernel and x386install won't work (HELP!!!) Message-ID: <1992Oct28.024803.15551@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct27.174049.10487@news.ysu.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 02:48:03 GMT Lines: 30 Daniel Newcombe (ae007@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: : (right bracket): file not found : (Sorry, silly IBM doesn't include brackets in their EBCDIC) There is nothing wrong with that. : I don't know what is causing this, so I tried to install the : generic 386bsd X Kernel from agate, as I do not have to You forgot to detar it. run tar xvf 386bsd again. : room to recompile the core. When I rebooted I got a message : saying 386bsd not in executable format and the system would Next time , check with size first. size 386bsd Next time, rename your original 386bsd as 386bsd.alt, if it failed to load 386bsd, it will try 386bsd.alt I thought I was the only one having this problem. I should have posted but then many people do not read the posts until they are in trouble. I included. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet