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From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee)
Subject: Re: Problems Getting NetBSD-0.9 running for the first time
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Date: 17 Feb 94 17:51:49 GMT
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lburns@cats.ucsc.edu (Len Burns) writes:
>This is likely a basic question so please bear with--this is the first
>time I have been through this. We have just completed the
>installation procedure of NetBSD-0.9 on a 25 mhz 386, 8 megs or ram
>and a 130 meg ide drive. The installation went quite smoothly. After
>running configure we followed the next instructions and typed reboot
>and sat back and watched. The machine went through its automatic
>reboot and came up with the login prompt. Now the problems: from this
>prompt we get an error message back saying no such file or directory
>from anything we feed it. Of course there are no accounts or much of
>anything else defined on this thing yet. I have sufficient
>information available to do a lot of the setrting up but how do we get
>in to perform these tasks. The person I queried about this told us we
>should be able to type root from here and get things started. I am
>obviously missing something obvious--any help with what it is would be
>appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>-Len
Try booting with -s (single user) mode. Then check the password file.
Kang.
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