At 12:53 PM 12/17/95, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> This has probably been already asked, but I installed everything onto a
>> IIvx, and had it booting and running fine, until one boot i got up to the
>> floppy0 at main0 message (or whatever that floppy message is just before
>> you finish booting into singleuser), and I got a message "init:  file not
>> found".
>
>That sounds like the file /sbin/init is no longer there.  This could be
>because of severe filesystem damage--confusion about which partition is
>the root (it was able to mount, so if you've only got one filesystem,
>this can't be the problem).  Try reinstalling base.

It wasn't file system damage.  Just a newbie root user.  I moved /sbin to
/root/sbin.  Apparently that was what did it.  (Learn something new every
hour.)
:-)

>> I tried to reinstall the kernel, no dice.  I then went into the mini-shell,
>> and when I did either a dir or ls in /, i got everything listed, but out of
>> order, but I also got a message of "fstat:  file not found".  Nothing
>> seemed to get rid of this.
>
>That's a bug in the installer.  The order that the installer shows
>everything is the order that it's actually in the directory--it's not
>sorted as 'ls' in NetBSD really does it.

That doesn't both me.  What bothered me was that fstat message.  The order
is fine.

>> However, the more i booted it, the more users got stuck when I was using
>
>That sounds like /var/run/utmp isn't being updated correctly for some
>reason.

Well, after a new filing system with MKFS, and a complete reinstall, it
works fine - i'm just having problems compiling stuff (zsh, perl, apache,
ncsa).  Seems something is always already declared...

And, I can't get elm to accept any editors...  Oh, well.


Shawn.

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