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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Sysinstall in 2.2.2
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:27:40 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Todd Suess <root@cracked.inspace.net>
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Todd Suess wrote:
> Thanks for the Tip, Jordan, however, I followed your suggestion, and even with a new
> binary of sysinstall (which is, BTW much smaller than the original sysinstall (~360k>
> vs. (~1.6M>, and it still gets the same segmentation fault..   :(  Only thing I can think
> of is to reinstall and before running sysinstall make a backup of the binary and then
> trying to recopy it back into /stand once it fails, but I really don't want to reinstall
> the whole system again....

Hmmm.  I've tried like heck to reproduce this and it works just fine
each time.  I'm kinda puzzled here. :(

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.