On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:

> In the minishell of the installer, what causes the message:
> 
> fstat: no such file or directory
> 
> when you ls the root directory?
> 
> (1.4 on a vx)

Hmmm. Was this file-system made with "newfs"? "newfs" makes level 3
file-systems by default; the installer only works with level 2.

fredb-> dumpfs /dev/rsd0a|head
Endian big-endian magic 11954   time    Thu Jul 29 20:52:09 1999
cylgrp  dynamic inodes  4.4BSD  fslevel 3
...                                     ^

In order to use the Installer, you need to make the fs with Mkfs, or
with "newfs -O2".

If that's not it, no idea.