From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 19:49:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1362737B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from earthlink.net (pool0562.cvx11-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.178.190.52]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA18849 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:49:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <412000126234645130@earthlink.net> X-EM-Version: 5, 0, 0, 0 X-EM-Registration: #3003520714B31D032830 X-Priority: Reply-To: tunjie@earthlink.net X-Mailer: EarthLink MailBox 5.02.8 (Windows) From: "Tunjie Sumner" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation Problem Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:46:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a novice with the FreeBSD 4.1 software. I was in the process of newly installing my software. I was configuring the X Server during the initial or first installation when my system froze on me. I then cold boot or turned off the computer off and then on again. I am using the BSD Desktop Edition-UNIX OS version 4.1. I need some assistance in getting the software running. I am able to boot and I received these system messages: Mounting root from ufs :/dev/ad1sa3 WARNING: /mnt was not properly mounted Swapon: adding /dev/ad1s3b as swap device Automatic boot in progress /dev/ad1s3a: LINK COUNT FILE 1=6273 owner = root MODE=20640 /dev/ad1s3a: SIZE=0 MTIME = Nov 30 16:06 2000 COUNT 1 SHOULD BE 2 /dev/ad1s3a: LINK COUNT INCREASING /dev/ad1s3a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY Automatic file system check failed...help! Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: After reading the boot message above I then proceeded to enter(E) the following command and received(R) the system's response: (E) /stand/sysinstall (R) Error opening terminal: cons25 (E) mkdir /usr/var (R) mkdir: /usr/var: Read-only file system (E) tar cf - .1 (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) (R) tar: not found cd: can't cd to /usr/var tar: not found Please reply ASAP Regards Tunjie L. Sumner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message