Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:23:51 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Aaron Parmelee" <trout@net66.com>, "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: just installed freebsd Message-ID: <199811021625.LAA05649@laker.net>
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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 HTH Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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