Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, Aaron Parmelee <trout@net66.com>, "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: just installed freebsd Message-ID: <19981104122635.A784@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199811021625.LAA05649@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 11:23:51AM -0500 References: <199811021625.LAA05649@laker.net>
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On Monday, 2 November 1998 at 11:23:51 -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:08:23 -0600, Aaron Parmelee wrote: > >> i have just installed freebsd on my machine, along with windowsNT. >> when started, my machine gives several choices of operating systems to boot. >> when i choose freebsd, it begins to start, but stops with the flag: >> init: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory >> >> other information: >> the partitions for freebsd are the ones automatically created by the >> installation software, plus a 1.2 gigabyte freebsd slice called /bin. >> >> not only am i new to freebsd, but i am a moron. what does this mean? > > Please don't give me an opening like that ;o) > > The problem is caused by having /bin as a seperate filesystem. At the > point that FreeBSD is attempting to load /bin/sh for single user mode, > the /bin filesystem isn't mounted. Move /bin onto / (I'd just reinstall > FreeBSD, since you also want to reclaim the 1.2GB from /bin) > > I create the following partitions: > / 300MB (100MB is probably plenty, but with a 6.? GB > drive, I got room to burn) > swap 300MB > /var 100MB > /tmp 300MB > /usr all the rest That might work for you. As you say, you have room to burn. I don't think this partitioning scheme would work for many people. In general, I advocate: / 40 MB, whether or not you have room to burn swap 256 MB (yes, I won't object to more) /usr all the rest. If you *ever* have a reason for more partitions, you need to justify it. It's seldom that one person's carefully thought out partitioning will work for somebody else. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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