From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 20:55:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09627 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamespot.com (ns1.gamespot.com [206.169.18.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09622 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tech-a.gamespot.com (tech-a.gamespot.com [206.169.18.59]) by gamespot.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA22939 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:45:27 GMT Message-Id: <199607232045.UAA22939@gamespot.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ian Kallen" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:50:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Install Q& A Reply-to: ian@gamespot.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is . in your path? A lot of folks consider it bad sysadmin practive to have it so and to precede all commands outside their path with full paths or relative paths (i.e. from /stand run it as ./sysinstall). > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:29:55 -0500 > From: Scott E H > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Install Q& A > I've installed FreeBSD but only seem to be able to re-run the sysinstall > with the /stand/sysinstall command. If I 'cd' into 'stand' do an 'ls' I > can see sysinstall but if I execute 'sysinstall' I got an error message. > It only works if I execute '/stand/sysinstall' I am trying to figure out > if this is normal or if my installation has gone south. I am running > this command from a 'bash' shell. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, scotteh@ix.netcom.com > > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology & Web Administration http://www.gamespot.com