From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 08:25:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03224 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03212 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-166.laker.net [208.0.233.66]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id LAA05649; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:25:19 -0500 Message-Id: <199811021625.LAA05649@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Aaron Parmelee" , "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:23:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: just installed freebsd Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:08:23 -0600, Aaron Parmelee wrote: >i have just installed freebsd on my machine, along with windowsNT. >when started, my machine gives several choices of operating systems to boot. >when i choose freebsd, it begins to start, but stops with the flag: >init: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory > >other information: > the partitions for freebsd are the ones automatically created by the >installation software, plus a 1.2 gigabyte freebsd slice called /bin. > >not only am i new to freebsd, but i am a moron. what does this mean? Please don't give me an opening like that ;o) The problem is caused by having /bin as a seperate filesystem. At the point that FreeBSD is attempting to load /bin/sh for single user mode, the /bin filesystem isn't mounted. Move /bin onto / (I'd just reinstall FreeBSD, since you also want to reclaim the 1.2GB from /bin) I create the following partitions: / 300MB (100MB is probably plenty, but with a 6.? GB drive, I got room to burn) swap 300MB /var 100MB /tmp 300MB /usr all the rest HTH Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message