>Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:41:43 -0400
>From: jk7023@cnsvax.albany.edu (Jaime Kikpole)
>
>        I just downlaoded NetBSD a week or so ago and have had quite a
>number of problems since.  Most of them I've figured out something about,
>but this one has me absolutely stuck.  On the i386 port, I used the install
>program, booting off of fd0.  Since I didn't have any floppies that fit
>into fd1 (5.25 inch drive), I did what the instructions said to do with the
>case of only one drive.  "halt", any key, boot the kernel-copy disk, don't
>flip disks but do press a key to continue.

So far so good.  But....

>        At this point, it would "panic: no init". near the very end of a
>boot-up.  (Just after the announcement that wd0 is the root.)  I have no
>idea what this means.  However, I did find a /init on the floppies, so I:
>        mount -v /dev/wd0a /mnt
>        mount -v /dev/fd1a /mnt2
>        cp /mnt2/init /mnt/init

That's not where it goes.  It should be in (from your POV) in
/mnt/sbin/init.  However, that will only delay the inevitable--there
are too many other files that are needed to make the system boot, even
in single-user mode (e.g. the contents of /bin, /sbin, and /dev).

You'll never get it to work if you try to install everything manually.
What happened when you tried to install using the directions?  What
was the last message the BIOS or OS printed before
hanging/rebooting/whatever?
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