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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
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References: <832706790.24914.0@stevewri.demon.co.uk>
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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