dshiell@igrin.co.nz writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 >  I've just installed BSD and have a few problems -
 >  
 >   The most serious is twice now I've had the BSD partition corrupted, so I cannot access it . ..unixfs says "bad disclabel", and I cant think of anything ive done to do this . . 

Check that none of your partitions (including the RiscOS ones)
overlap.

 >   Also, i cant get BSD to add another user to group 0, so I can use su, and X doesnt want to work when any user other than root is logged on - "permission denied : cannot access display driver"

Add the user name to the "wheel" group in /etc/group.

Ensure X is setuid root:

chown root XServerBinary
chmod 4755 XServerBinary

 >  Any ideas anyone?
 >  
 >  Thanks, James

Cheers Scott

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