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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A bloody error message Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:44:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5ga3g0$pp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33262a2b.15132738@nuhou.aloha.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36989 smpc@aloha.net (Theduck) wrote: > Hello fellow happy Unixers! I just installed FreeBSD on an old 486 so > I can learn it. Did a bareassed floppy install of just the /bin > distribution. Got the thing to boot up, and once it did, I didn't get > a login prompt, but instead this: > > Cannot find fstab entry for / That means your installation is botched, apparently. Most likely, there's no /etc/fstab file at all. While it's probably no big deal to create one in single-user mode (that's where you have been dropped into), you can never be sure what else might be damaged. Since you're writing it's a fresh installation, it's perhaps best to start over, and install again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)