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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
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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