In message <009f01c11f66$4886bec0$74881dcb@default>, "David Walker" writes:
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>I got an install.
>I watched with much excitement all those
>filenames scroll up my screen.
>I first tried a full install and it couldn't find comp.tgz and xcomp.tgz =
>so
>I skipped them and moved on. Of 12 sets found it extracted all 12.
>I rebooted and got some green text. The same sort of stuff encountered
>during a floppy boot. System info and that sort of thing.
>It got past my display, pc speaker, keyboard and lots of other stuff and
>then said:
>warning: no /dev/console
>This seems to me to suggest that something was missing during the =
>install.
>Perhaps one or both of the missing sets. I rebooted and tried again this
>time with a custom install and selecting not to install the compilation
>stuff. Well, it still wanted one of the sets (xcomp I think) so I =
>skipped
>and watched the files scroll. 12 sets found. I rebooted.
>I got the green screen again and the same message.
>I gathered from my reading that the 2 missing sets were for compiling =
>your
>own sources only and not necessary. As I don't think I'll be doing any =
>of
>that in the near future I didn't worry about them. Anyway, they were the
>only 2 sets I didn't seem to have.
>I wonder what no /dev/console means. Maybe I should try using the
>generic_diagnostic.
>Obviously I don't know.
>Anyway, I've learnt a lot so far. Everytime I have to reboot I have to =
>mk
>the tmp dos, mount the msdos to the tmp, and now copy the files to the =
>/usr,
>etc. I'm starting to learn a few commands.

Are you using sysinst or doing a manual unpack?  For the latter, before 
rebooting, do

	cd /dev
	./MAKEDEV


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb