Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:24:45 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with 2.0.5 alpha using NFS install Message-ID: <199506090254.MAA04866@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199506090252.TAA10127@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jun 8, 95 07:52:03 pm
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Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > IMHO, / should _always_ be newfs'd, but as this is a change from > > previous versions, I'm sure there's a Very Good Reason. > so you can RECOVER your system and not just CLOBBER it :) Ah. I thought that was what the fixit floppy was for? 8) > > What does /mnt/etc/fstab look like? That's the one of interest. > can it really matter at this stage? > she HAS the mount up and running, and the fstab is not used to do that. No, but the last debug message concerns writing /etc/fstab, and the next step (prettymuch) is fetching root.flp, which isn't happening. Given that the mount is working, and there aren't any errors wandering around, it looks like a good place to start... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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