Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:39:19 -0000 From: "Admin" <admin@sycos.co.uk> To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro>, <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: peter@sycos.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem Message-ID: <006101c3c58d$de4d14c0$1c77fea9@dpc27> References: <000101c3c4ab$54c78740$1c77fea9@dpc27><20031217195513.76ac47a2.itetcu@apropo.ro><001201c3c563$94d09e40$1c77fea9@dpc27> <20031218145823.107e553a.itetcu@apropo.ro>
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Hi Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Thanks for the response. I did create the user account using sysinstall and failed to login after system reboot. I deleted the profile and recreated the adduser command. It works. I have created a log file using dmesg, but, I am unable to copy on to the floppy disc. When I try to mount the floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /mnt, it gives me error message: Device is not configured. I am trying to copy the log file to floppy disc so that I can attach this file to the e-mail running on windows system. I formatted the floppy using fdformat command, and when tried to mount, it gives me error message "incorrect super block". Now this format is not copatible with windows system. I also created another dos fat partition and tried to mount so that I could copy the log file to dos partition, it won't work. I have used this method to transfer the files on a Linux system. Is there a way to transfer files from FreeBSD to Windows? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Admin" <admin@sycos.co.uk>; <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem > [cc'ed back to the list] > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:36:37 -0000 > "Admin" <admin@sycos.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi Ion-Mihai Tetcu, > > Hi, > > Please use reply all, so that a copy of the message gets to questions > list also. > > > The minimal system which I built earlier on my P4 2.53GHz system got > > corrupted during adding XFree86 package using sysinstall. I had to > > abandon that installation. After several attempts, I, have managed to > > install the minimal installation. > > > > After rebooting, it won't let me log in as user, but, login as root > > was successful. > > Could you please elaborate ? Did you add a user from sysinstall when > promted ? > > > I have run the dmesg and the log is attached as hwlog > > file. > > It is not. I can't say anything without. > > > I am able to install info, man, ports and perl packages using > > sysinstall, but, when tried installing text editors, it crashed during > > copying XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5. When rebooted the system, it failed > > to start logger and given a lot of error messages init: can't exec > > getty/usr/libexec/getty for port /dev/ttyv0 .. /dev/ttyv1 etc and the > > system hangs. > > Probably becouse the crash. Did it print anything on the system console > before crashing ? > > > I have reinstalled the minimal installation, but, I won't install any > > more packages until been advised with a way forward. When the system > > crashes during package install, where the error messages are logged? > > /var/log is the default place for logs. > > In /var/log/messages you should find errors that are printed on the > console, provided tha system has the time to write them before the crash > and the buffers are flushed on disk. If you find something that looks > unusall please poste that also. > > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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