On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, tcjam wrote:

> 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

Actually, I did install everything from the etc package, including the
/var stuff :)

> 
> > 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.


Actually, by using the advice of re-untarring it in / with the --unlink
option, it worked perfectly...now fsck doesn't need the extra "/" argument

> > 
> > 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
> > 


The syslogd error is still erroring :) I did install the /var stuff from
the etc package...but it still doesn't work...

Thanks for the help!

Josh

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