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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!stevewri.demon.co.uk From: steve@stevewri.demon.co.uk (Steve Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Initial boot login problem (2.1.0) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 19:26:30 GMT Organization: Leicestershire On-line Lines: 33 Message-ID: <832706790.24914.0@stevewri.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: steve@stevewri.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: stevewri.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: stevewri.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I've just installed the RELEASE version of FreeBSD on a P75 PC running Win95. Installation seemed to go OK. I used FIPS to partition the first physical drive (C:) and then installed from an MSDOS partition (after having downloaded all the binaries etc from the 'net!) The first time I tried to boot from the HD, everything seems to go OK until I get the message: "login: May 21 19:08:04 myname sendmail [87]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): my host name (myname.my.domain) does not seem to exist!: Connection refused" As well as the above I've also noticed messages during the bootup like: "root not dismounted", myname.my.domain : "bad value" Now, bearing in mind my knowledge of Unix based OS's is limited to the commands ls and CDUP, I'm a bit stumped. Has anyone got any advice? Have I made an elimentary mistake like disk geometry set wrong, or is it something more sinister! Regards Steve Wright Leicestershire On-line Web space for a fiver a month http://www.leics-on-line.co.uk/