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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sesqui.net!uhura.phoenix.net!usenet From: Phoenix Data Net <lacosta@panama.phoenix.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with intial 2-1-5 installation Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:24:12 -0400 Organization: Phoenix DataNet Lines: 29 Message-ID: <323D711C.7F7@panama.phoenix.net> References: <50n1va$3rb@newsbeta.dircon.co.uk> Reply-To: lacosta@panama.phoenix.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.95.131.190 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (Win95; I) it happened to me too. the problem was that i manually added the /bin fs instead of letting it do it automatically from the / fs. try reinstalling and don't specify the /bin fs hope this helps JoseGarcia C.COM Panama "Destiny Struggles to Reassert the Patterns that were Meant to Be" Michael Pye wrote: > > I started doing the installation from msdos partition, just the > minimum bin installation. Seemed to work ok, but doing the > post-configuration I was not able to set the admin password or add > users. > > On booting up it goes through all the usual boot process but does not > give me the login prompt, instead it says something about: > 'could not find /bin/sh for /etc/rc' > > /bin/sh is rather an essential file !! Any ideas ? A reinstall doesn't > help. > > -- > mikey@dircon.co.uk