system crash during make installworld

[David J Brooks]

>> 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: 
>> 
>> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found 
>> Abort trap 
>> 
>> .. again. This happens pretty much anytime I try to execute a command that does not come from /rescue 
>> 
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>To copy your /etc directory to /var/tmp use: 
> 
>/rescue/cp -rp /etc /var/tmp 
> 
>Scot 



That seems to be working. 


Thanks to all who have helped in sorting out this mess! 


David