given the what you've listed below, can you do the following:

boot into single-user mode
type 'mount /usr' (w/o the quotes) at the command prompt
type 'ls /usr'  and verify that there are in fact directories there
type 'ls -l' /usr/bin and verify that most files have permissions more or
		less like -r-xr-xr-x

if any of the above fail, you may have found your problem.

later.

colin


Stephen wrote:
> 
> Stephen wrote:
> > I've made three attempts to get BSD 1.3 running on my IIci, and whenever 
> > I attempt to boot into multi user mode, I get : 
> > 
> > Starting network:
> > grep: not found
> > install: not found
> > (followed by more 'not found' messages)
> > and finally the system hangs and repeatedly prints:
> > 
> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty/ for port /dev/ttye0: No such 
> > file or directory
> 
> >>do you have a separate /usr partition?  it sounds to me like you forgot to
> >>mount your /usr partition when you did the install, so all the /usr
> >>binaries (including the missing /usr/libexec/getty) are now on your root
> >>partition.  when netbsd goes into multi-user mode, it mounts your empty
> >>/usr partition and hides all the binaries.
> 
> Thanks for all the responses.
> 
> In reply to all the suggestions:
> 
> I followed the following instructions from Larry Kollar's Installation 
> Guide:
> 
>  4.Select "Build Devices" from the File menu. This creates the standard 
> list of devices in the /dev directory. 
> 
> 7.Create empty directories for use as mount points. For example, create 
> the /usr directory with the command: 
> 
>             mkdir /usr
> 
> 
> 8.Mount user partitions at the appropriate mount points. For example, if 
> your NetBSD drive is the second drive in the SCSI chain, mount the first 
> user partition with the command: 
> 
>             mount /dev/sd1g /usr 
> 
> (actually I typed sd0d for my own hard drive: I got the appropriate list 
> of partitions by doing the disklabel command at the A> prompt in the 
> minishell)
> 
> 
> Again, thanks in advance
> 
> Stephen
> ostbahn@sprynet.com
> 


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