Stephen wrote:
> I've made three attempts to get BSD 1.3 running on my IIci, and whenever 
> I attempt to boot into multi user mode, I get : 
> 
> Starting network:
> grep: not found
> install: not found
> (followed by more 'not found' messages)
> and finally the system hangs and repeatedly prints:
> 
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty/ for port /dev/ttye0: No such 
> file or directory

>>do you have a separate /usr partition?  it sounds to me like you forgot to
>>mount your /usr partition when you did the install, so all the /usr
>>binaries (including the missing /usr/libexec/getty) are now on your root
>>partition.  when netbsd goes into multi-user mode, it mounts your empty
>>/usr partition and hides all the binaries.

Thanks for all the responses.

In reply to all the suggestions:

I followed the following instructions from Larry Kollar's Installation 
Guide:

 4.Select "Build Devices" from the File menu. This creates the standard 
list of devices in the /dev directory. 

7.Create empty directories for use as mount points. For example, create 
the /usr directory with the command: 

            mkdir /usr


8.Mount user partitions at the appropriate mount points. For example, if 
your NetBSD drive is the second drive in the SCSI chain, mount the first 
user partition with the command: 

            mount /dev/sd1g /usr 

(actually I typed sd0d for my own hard drive: I got the appropriate list 
of partitions by doing the disklabel command at the A> prompt in the 
minishell)


Again, thanks in advance

Stephen
ostbahn@sprynet.com