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From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Freebsd 1.1R installation problems: bindist
Date: 17 Jun 1994 21:08:32 GMT
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In article <thinmanCrJ2ow.5sp@netcom.com>, thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
|>"gunzip" and "tar" core-dump repeatedly while unpacking bindist.
|>This of course leaves the system unusable because a) I can't
|>log in and b) there are no shared libraries to be found.
|>What's going on?  How can I get around this?

copy /usr/lib/libc.so.* to /usr/distrib and
then do

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/distrib ; export LD_LIBARARY_PATH

before restoring.  
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