Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:15:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> To: Scott E H <scotteh@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Q& A Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960723221307.19807A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <31F598B3.6DC1@ix.netcom.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Scott E H wrote: > 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. Sounds like you've experienced something that everybody stumbles upon at first: '.' is left out of the root path to help protect against trojan horses and what not. The best way to execute a program in the current directory when logged in as root is './sysinstall'. Hope that helps! - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU ---- ashworth@cs.montana.edu ----- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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