> Hi,
> 
> I am using a Macintosh IIcx with 20MB of RAM, a 730MB Quantum HD, and was
> previosuly running 1.2.1.  I downloaded the 1.3-ALPHA snapshot for the
> mac68k port. I am now in the process of installing it.  I am following the
> same procedure I used to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.2.1.  Namely,
> 
> I booted single user and mounted my partitions read/write.
> 
> I went to the root directory ( cd / ) and then did
> 
>    tar --unlink -zxvpf base.tar.gz
> 
> This was the base snapshot for 1.3-ALPHA.  Tar did its stuff and seemed to
> untar everything without any problems.  However, now I cannot use any
> commands.  All commands come up with the same error message:
> 
>   Bad system call - core dumped
> 
> I tried 'ls', 'tar', 'cat', even 'halt' and 'shutdown' do not work.  At
> this point, I am wide open to suggestions, since I cannot even shutdown my
> system. 
> 

I had the same experience on an SE/30 (Quantum Lightning 730, 32 MB)
upgrading this way. The only thing I remember to work without dumping a
core was 'sync'.
I rebooted and installed the packages from the MacOS side.

BTW: Why is the installer so much slower than tar -xzvf? For example,
installing the /usr/share/zoneinfo files takes a *lot* more time.

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