On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> I downloaded base and text and etc packages from the current sources of
> NetBSD...I did have all NetBSD 1.2.1 stuff. 
> 
> I installed the etc files by hand, one by one, making sure all my prefs
> were transferred. I did it very carefully :)
> 
This is part of your problem...
	the etc package also handles a few things outside of /etc
	I would suggest installing the etc package into /altroot and
	moving everything in /altroot/var to /var

> Then I went ahead and installed the base package, but not by hand. 
> 
> I also installed text, but this was the first time I had installed the
> package. Previously, text had not been installed on my machine...I just
> got sick of those errors saying "could not find nroff"...
> 
> Anyways, I then restarted. Upon booting up, a curious thing happened:
> 
> Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks
> Usage: fsck [-dfnpy] [-b block] [-c level] [-m mode] filesystem ...
	There is just something funny about this version of fsck, IIRC you
should be able to make this work by typing "fsck -p /" you can also check
/etc/rc and change it where appropriate.

> 
> Then the system went into single user. I exitted out, and the boot
> continued...and errored when it tried loading syslogd:
> 
> Starting rpc daemons: portmap syslogd: /var/log/authlog: no such file or
> directory syslogd: /var/log/xferlog: no such file or directory
> 
> Then it continued booting up, and nothing "major" happened. It's working,
> but these errors are kinda getting to me...
> 
	See the above stuff about misc. files installed in /var from the
etc package.

> I tried running fsck from a normal prompt, getting the same error message
> as posted above...
> 
	Again, the same errors from this messed up version of fsck ;)

> I'd really like to get this stuff cleaned up :) Any help or info or tips
> would be really ppreciated...
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
> 

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