From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 13:39:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com [24.5.122.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05A614D48 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Received: from localhost (tbackman@localhost) by c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA20716; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:45:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forgive me if this is an ignorant question: I thought the reason for booting to single user mode was to not have the filesystems mounted? Thanks. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > > > > Would you happen to know how to get around the: "error opening terminal: > > cons25." problem I am having when trying to run /stand/sysinstall from > > single user? > > Huh. Did you mount your filesystems first? /usr/share/misc/termcap > appears to be missing. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks. Maybe the "Upgrade" option should be removed from > > > > /stand/sysinstall?? > > > > > > No, more correctly it should not allow you to select the option if it > > > detects that the system is in multiuser mode. You can certainly do it if > > > you shut the system down to single user or if you boot the boot floppies > > > (like you're supposed to). > > > > > > Doug White > > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > > > > > > > ========================================================================= > > Todd Backman "there are two major products > > that came out of berkley: > > Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. > > Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be > > "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson > > ========================================================================= > > > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products that came out of berkley: Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message