From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 04:02:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA11273 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.digital.com (mail2.digital.com [204.123.2.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA11264 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com by mail2.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA14315; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:57:28 -0800 Received: from vivaOSI.bro.dec.com by mts-gw.pa.dec.com (5.65/09May94) id AA05107; Wed, 13 Nov 96 03:51:59 -0800 Received: by vivaOSI.bro.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/18Mar96-0950AM) id AA06648; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:51:39 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:51:39 +0100 From: Roger Buttiens Message-Id: <9611131151.AA06648@vivaOSI.bro.dec.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.1.5-RELEASE NFS install problems Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have a problem similar to the one I found while searching through the mail archive. I've appended the mail. But I could not find the answer .... Could you provide some assistance ? My case differs in this : - Digital Unix V3.2C NFS server (OSF/1) - mount point on OSF/1 : /mnt - my installation is from scratch (empty disk) - my system mounts and installs the CD after a second commit attempt as in mail below, but the system can't boot. It loops while displaying : F1 . . . BSD with intervals of 5-10 seconds. I assume it's the same problem, though. Thanks, Best regards Roger Buttiens - Digital Equipment \ Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 22:34:42 -0700 (PDT) From: William Wong To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.1.5-RELEASE NFS install problems I have this annoying problem of error messages showing up when I boot up the machine using the boot floppy and trying to do an NFS install. I'm trying to install 2.1.5-RELEASE. In options, I chose secure NFS because I'm trying to mount off of a SUN workstation. I go through everything and then do a commit. After the filesystem has been created and some files off of the boot floppy has been copied, I get the error message: Error mounting sunbeam:/u/export/FreeBSD on /dist: No such file or directory ( The rest of the line gets cut off. I do an alt-F2 and the screen said: DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file mount_nfs: can't get net id for host DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1 So I did an alt-F1 back to the error message and chose continue. It then gave: Can't find a kernel image to link to on the root file system! you're going to have a hard time getting this system to boot from the hard disk, I'm afraid! So I chose continue again. Then it said: Installation completed with some errors. your may wish to scroll through the debugging messages on VTY1 with the scroll-lock feature. With another continue keystroke: The commit operation completed with errors. Not updating /etc/files. With one last continue keystroke, it then returned me back to the "Choose Custom Installation Options" menu. I chose Commit again. This time, it was able to mount the server and proceed. All goes well and after a reboot, the machine is up and running. My question is, is this normal? Are the files in /etc updated? My screen saver doesn't seem to work (kick in after the specified time interval). That was the first thing I noticed. I then tried to directly mount from FreeBSD.cdrom.com and got the same thing. This didn't used to happen with 2.1.0-RELEASE. Any comments or pointers would be greatly appreciated. William T. Wong email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu