On Jul 7,  3:34pm, Steffen "D\\|nner" wrote:
> Subject: No access to my own HD ?!
> Hi !
>
> I finally managed it to install all the REQuired sets of RiscBSD1.1
> without (!!) any problems. All the files were dearchived and written
> correctly to my HD using /usr/local/sbin/inst. After installation most of
> the directories were filled up with many files and I had access to all of
> them. I did the last piece of configuration according to the beta.txt
> manual (hostname ...) and then typed 'halt' to reboot my machine. After
> booting only the basic shell commands (ls,mv,halt,...) were available.
> Complete /usr/distrib directory in which I loaded the sets was empty,
> some files I found and tried to run produced a 'Permission denied' or
> 'Read-only filesystem' !! I thought this was *my* harddisc ! And now I've
> got no access to it !!?? I rebooted and used unixfsdemo to count all the
> files on HD4a and HD4e to see if they were there at least. -> They were...
>
> So ... where is my fault ? What will I have to do to get control over *my
> own* system ??

Sounds like you just rebooted in single-user mode. Single-user mode starts up
with only the / partition mounted read-only and /usr not mounted at all. This
means there was either an error in mounting the disks or you have the 'single
user mode' box ticked in the booter. Check and see whether there is an error
message.

Cheers

Rob Black

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