From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 16:56:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA14737 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA14731 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id RAA10596 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:56:28 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199701090056.RAA10596@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: 2.1.6 Install question (resend) To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:56:28 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jan 8, 97 02:49:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, David Lewis wrote: % Turns out that the kernel install doesn't like /sbin to not be loading on % the / partition. I was attempting to install /sbin on its own partition. % % Once I backed out of this and installed /sbin under /, the problem was % resolved (after much irritation and headache). Doug White responded: > So you created a mountpoint /sbin? > > How odd... I'll keep that for future reference. OTTMCO. /sbin is, literally, "standalone bin;" it is needed to bring the system up. Everything needed to bring the system up must be in the root filesystem. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com