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  • From: Ben <benwei AT veriwave.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 2 and Slak tcpip packages
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:04:26 -0700

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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