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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:40:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        hamimi <hamimi@dataxprs.com.eg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112183906.22079N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bd1cb8$781d7ac0$6bd379a3@alexnet.alexnet.com.eg>

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Please use a subject line, it makes categorizing mail much easier. Thanks.

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, hamimi wrote:

> I downloaded version 2.2.2 of freeBSD
> Everything works alright except one thing.
> When I boot from the hard disk and I type:
> /stand/sysinstall
> I receive the following:
> Error: This utility should only be run as root.
> When I point to the / directory and write the same thing I 
> receive the same message.

It means root user.  Run `su' then run sysinstall.

But you should upgrade to 2.2.5 first; the 2.2.2 sysinstall is buggy and
will probably turn your rc.conf to spaghetti.

> And when I point to the /stand directory and type sysinstall ,
> I receive the following:
> sysinstall: not found

Try ./sysinstall in this case.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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