*BSD News Article 90932


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.aloha.net!news
From: smpc@aloha.net (Theduck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: A bloody error message
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 04:05:27 GMT
Organization: League of Chronically Naked People
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <33262a2b.15132738@nuhou.aloha.net>
Reply-To: My adress
NNTP-Posting-Host: hawaii-158.u.aloha.net
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36965

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 /

And something else, about skipping scans for disks. I think. Anyway,
after this goes up, I have a prompt, good ole sh, and I can switch to
csh if I so desire. My point is, what does this mean? How can I fix
it? Will it involve chanting Bob Dylan songs whilst smearing goat's
blood over the monitor?

Have a nice day, hour, minute, lifetime, eternity - TheDuck