Hello,

I asume you put /root on another partition than /.
IMHO that should be possible, but it's also pretty useless.

Can you please tell us the exact error message you recieve when you boot?

Regards

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:36:58PM -0300, Marcelo Avalos wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I try to install NetBSD 3.0 on P-MMX (i586), but failed when decompres
> etc.tgz set.  the error message is:
> 
> Comando: progress -zf /mnt2//sets/etc.tgz   tar --chroot  -xhepf -
> 51% |********************                             | 484 KB   480.69 KB/s
> 00:00 ETA
> tar: Cannot link to ./root/.cshrc from ./.cshrc (Cross-device link)
> tar: Cannot link to ./root/.profile from ./.profile (Cross-device link)
> 100% |************************************| 940 KB   514.43 KB/s 00:00 ETA
> 
> And when I reboot the machine, NetBSD abort multiuser mode.  How I can
> resolve this?
> 
> Thanks.