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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!delmarva.com!udel!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Initial boot login problem (2.1.0) Date: 22 May 1996 02:01:12 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4ntsh8$lbm@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <832706790.24914.0@stevewri.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <832706790.24914.0@stevewri.demon.co.uk>, Steve Wright <steve@stevewri.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >"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" This means that you didn't set the hostname during the installation. You can fix this by editing /etc/sysconfig:- # Set to the name of your host - this is pretty important! hostname="jraynard.demon.co.uk" >"root not dismounted" This means that the computer rebooted without being taken down properly (Unix is a real operating system and needs to be treated with a little more respect than just pulling the plug on it 8-). Just type 'reboot' or 'halt' as root - do 'man shutdown' to read about a more flexible way of doing it. >Have I made an elimentary mistake like disk geometry set wrong, or is >it something more sinister! Nope, if it was the disk geometry, you wouldn't be able to boot at all! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk