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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Ng <kng@caravelle.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960919230922.718P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <323D5D61.4666@caravelle.com>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Keith Ng wrote:

> I get another installation error after I install the bin distribution .
> It says MAKEDEV is returning a non-negative number.  The system does
> boot but I could not get the login instead it drops you to shell prompt.

Could you be more specific as to the error messages you're getting, and
why you're dropping to single user mode?  You have to really break stuff
to get it to drop to a prompt right off.

My guess is that the drive devices didn't get made right.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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