From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 21:21:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.thesadmachine.org (dsl254-008-078-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4526F37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96422 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Dec 2000 05:31:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 2000 05:31:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:31:13 -0600 (CST) From: brian william wolter To: Tunjie Sumner Cc: Subject: Re: Installation Problem In-Reply-To: <412000126234645130@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, i'm not too sure how exactly to solve your problem, but i once had a similar one while messing with my /etc/rc configuration. i do know that in order to edit anything (as in write to the fs) you first have to mount the filesystem manually... something like: mount /dev/ad5s1 only whatever device your root fs is on. hope that helps peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Tunjie Sumner wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message