On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Le Quan Ninh wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just installed NetBSD 1.4 on my PowerBook 520. It seems that the install
> was successful but after I indicates vt220 as a terminal, the sentence
> "Don't login as root, use the su command" appears.
> I hit return to get the prompt and cannot have access to the /etc directory.
> I hit /etc : Is it the right command ?
> because it answers :
> /etc: Permission denied. What can I do ?
> 

You typed 

/etc

?  That means you tried to execute the directory, not change to it.

cd /etc

changes to that directory.

-Dan