Subject: Re: NetBSD won't boot
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/26/2003 23:17:15
    Date:        Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:33:51 -0500 (EST)
    From:        Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
    Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310261027040.774@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>

  | When I do "ls -l fstab", I get the following:
  | lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 17 Ocs 25 20:15 fstab -> etc.current/fstab
  | 
  | The same is true for rc.conf, inetd.conf, mrouted.conf, nsswitch.conf,
  | ntp.conf, and resolv.conf.  The directory etc.current does not exist in
  | /etc!  They're all dead links!  How do I get out of this predicament?

Do the mount using the device name as has already been suggested.

Then, in /etc find a directory etc.foo that contains copies of all of
those files, and
	ln -s etc.foo /etc/etc.current

Then avoid fiddling with any of the etc.foo stuff other than by
using newbtconf

kre