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[Ben <benwei AT veriwave.com>]

Thanks, I got it working now.  One of the tcpip packages somehow overwrote my 
busybox binary with ifconfig.  I extracted the clean binary from a downloaded 
BL and restored it on my system, which fixed everything.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:48:19 +1200
qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ben wrote:
> >
> > I just finished installing BL2, and then for some reason 
> > thought it would be a good idea to install the tcpip packages 
> > from Slackware 7.1.  Now I am having some very strange problems.
> 
> I installed the tcpip1 package on my BL2, without problem.
> I wonder if something is funny in tcpip2?
> 
> > When I try to run any busybox commands they just give me 
> > the output from 'ifconfig'.  
> 
> Sounds like something has been overwritten.  But it's hard
> to see how busybox was overwritten, it is in a special
> directory.  Did you install the tcpip packages with installpkg?
> 
> > I have no idea how this happened.  Can anyone help me out here?
> 
> If you haven't invested much in that partition, I suggest you
> reinstall.  However, if you've already done stuff on that 
> partition that you don't want to lose, I suggest you boot the 
> ramdisk version, mount the partition and see if you can fix 
> the problem.  First thing to check is the busybox executable.  
> If it has been overwritten on the HD, replace it with the busybox 
> from the ramdisk.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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