From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 09:41:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDDE16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:41:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADC843D1D for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:39:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@sycos.co.uk) Received: from sycos.demon.co.uk ([158.152.248.21] helo=dpc27) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AX27K-0004v4-0Z; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:39:19 +0000 Message-ID: <006101c3c58d$de4d14c0$1c77fea9@dpc27> From: "Admin" To: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" , References: <000101c3c4ab$54c78740$1c77fea9@dpc27><20031217195513.76ac47a2.itetcu@apropo.ro><001201c3c563$94d09e40$1c77fea9@dpc27> <20031218145823.107e553a.itetcu@apropo.ro> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:39:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 cc: peter@sycos.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:41:24 -0000 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" To: "Admin" ; 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" 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