system crash during make installworld

[Scot Hetzel]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:16 PM, David J Brooks <freysman at comcast.net> wrote:
> Next I made a copy of the 8.2-RC# install disk and tried to do an upgrade in place. It was unable to backup /etc to /var/tmp/etc due to:
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> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found
> Abort trap
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> .. again. This happens pretty much anytime I try to execute a command that does not come from /rescue
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> I really rather not do a clean install and lose all my configuration data, but it's increasingly looking like that may be my only option.
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To copy your /etc directory to /var/tmp use:

/rescue/cp -rp /etc /var/tmp

Scot