On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, El JoPe Magnifico wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> >> I still get a "bad system call" error from vi and then a core dump, 
> >> and likewise with more. 
> > 
> > sounds like you missed something in your reinstall (or else something
> > is a bit corrupted).
> 
> Well, the fact that I've been installing one set of binaries over another,
> rather than wiping out the old ones first, makes me somewhat wary.
> Now that I'm read-write and know rm works, I could do an "rm -rf /" to
> clear everything out first, yes?  Or is simply formatting again with 
> Mkfs the suggested method of doing this?  

Before you do something that drastic, I'd check your libraries.  Sounds
like one of those could be hosed. Also, do an ls -l and make sure that
filesystem corruption hasn't replaced them with evice files or anything
wacko.


Later,
David

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