From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 02:22:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04811 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04804 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA00809; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:21:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:21:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Yimin Hsiao cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <01BC3C7A.B910E4A0@yihsiao.extern.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Yimin Hsiao wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2, and I have some problems > I built my own kernel successfully, but one time I hit > Ctrl-Alt-Del while in # prompt. There was no response, so I rebooted > the computer. When I entered FreeBSD the second time, the boot message > was pretty long, containing messages like "automatic reboot", etc. Then > it just froze up. I had to hit Ctrl-C to get to the login: prompt. > Please help me out. I don't want to have to hit Ctrl-C every time I > boot. This is caused by a failing nameserver lookup. Make sure the name of the machine is defined in /etc/hosts, and modify /etc/host.conf to read hosts bind > Also can you tell me how I can access other harddrives in > FreeBSD. I have one FAT harddrive that contains package and XFree86 > that I want to install to FreeBSD, and I tried using the > /stand/sysinstall, but it wouldn't install them for me. It said it > couldn't find the file INDEX under package, but I double checked and it > was there on that harddrive. I'm sure I specified the right harddrive, > it was my primary slave and chose the primary drive (wd0) in the "media" > submenu. It couldn't install XFree either. Is there any way that I can > just access the harddrive myself and install manually? Once you get rebooted, run mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt to bring that disk online at /mnt. Then extract the pieces you want by running 'tar xzf file' from /usr/X11R6. Or, re-run sysinstall (/stand/sysinstall). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major