From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 24 07:52:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from email.csun.edu (csun1.csun.edu [130.166.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13157 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pf20360@email.csun.edu) Received: from peter1 (s097n121.csun.edu) by csun1.csun.edu with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA185829523; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:52:03 -0700 Message-Id: <3540A818.61C1ACF6@csun.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:56:24 -0700 From: Peter Fogg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation Problem X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On page 72 of The Complete FreeBSD book, second edition, several end-of-installation procedures are recommended. The procedure to move "/var" is the one giving me the problem. When I enter the commands listed, the following takes place: # mkdir /usr/var ( this works ) # cd /var ( this works ) # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) ( this works ) # cd / ( this works ) # rm -rf /var ( I receive a message "/var Device is busy" ) # ln -s /usr/var /var ( does not work ) Some subsequent operations, including the boot process, display messages that state the some file in /var cannot be found. HELP! Thanks in advance for your help. Peter - peter.fogg@csun.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message