From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 23:22:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA12836 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12826 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00825; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:21:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Richard Stanaford cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot after Installation... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Richard Stanaford wrote: > /etc/rc: Can't open /etc/rc > init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory > Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: Three things you don't want to see after an install :-( Somehow the files didn't make it onto your partition. > When I did a "ls" it appeared that I had an /etc dir and a /usr dir and so > on, but when I tried to cd to one of them I got a message saying that I > could not. Wierd. It's like the filesystem was seriously corrupted. > I have tried to allow Win95 and FreeBSD exist on the same drive with a > boot manager and then I even tried allowing FreeBSD to use the entire > disk, bith with the same results. My only guess is FreeBSD is getting fed > the wrong info about the disk geometry. What do you think? :) I think that either: 1. You're trying to install over a previoulsy failed installation 2. Something is messed up with your disk 3. FreeBSD doesn't like your disk You might try with #1, going into DOS fdisk and deleting everything you see. It sounds like the stuff on the disk is relatively expendable. Also try putting a small DOS primary partition on there, then delete it when you get to the FDISK editor in install and make the whole disk FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo