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Re: trouble installing NetBSD prerelease

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew J. Kim)
Fri Jul 10 17:43:16 1998

To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:43:08 EDT
From: "Andrew J. Kim" <ajkim@MIT.EDU>


Let me elaborate more on the current status of my system so
you can better judge where something went wrong...

The boot process aborts after fsck complains about /etc/fstab
not being there.  It then kicks me to bourne shell.

Looking around I see that there is stuff in the following dirs:
	/dev
	/sbin
	/etc (Looks like almost everything is there except fstab.
		fstab.sd and fstab.wd are there but not fstab)
	/root

The following directories were created, but they are empty:
	/afs
	/kern
	/proc
	/home
	/mnt
	/rtmp
	/stand
	/tmp
	/u1

The reason I can't cd into /usr (as I mentioned in my previous email)
is that it is linked to /u1/usr which doesn't exist.

The output of "df -k" is:
Filesystem	1K blocks	Used	Avail	Capacity Mounted On
root_device	47599		21374	23845	47%	 /

I was also going to try to get to where /srvd is usually linked, but
there is nothing in /afs.

ajkim writes:
>I tried (twice) installing the NetBSD prerelease earlier tonight, but
>both times it hung on me at the same point.  The output was something
>like:
>
>	unpacking a lot of tgz files
>	.
>	.
>	.
>	copying the kernel
>	running MAKEDEV
>	Finishing etc
>
>and then it just hangs there.  I rebooted it to see what it would let
>me do, which wasn't much.  It gave me the bourne shell when it
>couldn't find /etc/fstab.  I couldn't even cd into some of the
>directories like /usr which had read and executable permissions to
>everyone.  But, I could cd into /etc and a few other directories.
>
>At this point, I was going to try to run the script
>/srvd/install/install, but the /srvd directory hadn't been setup yet.
>
>So, what should I do?  Seeing that I tried installing off of floppy
>twice already with the same result, I figure that I need to do a
>little something extra.

--
Andrew J. Kim
ajkim@mit.edu

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