Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:24:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> To: dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507161820.17452C-100000@dazed.nol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507121150.600A-100000@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu>
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, dale wrote: > Hi, i recently recompiled the 2.1.0-RELEASE kernel for my machine's > specifics and after succesfully doing so, i can no longer run > /stand/sysinstall, it gives me the following error message when trying to > do so: > /stand/sysinstall: Exec format error. Wrong Archetecture. > which is confusing, i don't think i upgraded anything but i am not > positive, i'm fairly certain all my files came from > ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/systems/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/ 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. > > 128.42.161.30 > > also, if i try mailing to any user locally (i use pine to do so) > and use the ip numbers instead of address (pine root@128.42.161.30 > instead of pine root@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu) it will not work- > the mail gets returned with the following: > ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- > root@128.42.161.30 (unrecoverable error) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 root@128.42.161.30... Host unknown (Name server: 128.42.161.30: host > not found) > > anyway, again, i get the previous from "pine root@128.42.161.30" after i > send the mail. > > thanx for any comments > My first guess is that you have your hostname/domainname set incorrectly or not set at all. Brett
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