From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 18:41:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15192 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15118 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA22157; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:40:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: hamimi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <01bd1cb8$781d7ac0$6bd379a3@alexnet.alexnet.com.eg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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