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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
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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. ;-)