From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 23:22:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 23:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18636 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 23:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA17376; Mon, 11 May 1998 01:21:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sfarrell) To: lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny) Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: Can't mount drive References: <35562de6.1560709@mail.ncfweb.net> <87hg2xvh90.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> <35569516.31229@mail.ncfweb.net> From: sfarrell@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 11 May 1998 01:21:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: lunarchy@ncfweb.net's message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 06:12:23 GMT" Message-ID: <87af8pz5sg.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 71 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny) writes: > On 10 May 1998 18:27:39 -0500, sfarrell+lists@farrell.org says: > > }lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny) writes: > } > }> I've just installed Free BSD on my second hard drive. I used > }> a clean drive and the whole drive for the system. The boot takes me > }> to the point where it mounts the drive, fails to mount the drive and > }> it re-boots the computer. What should I do? > } > }Perhaps it cannot find your root partition? Try booting with the > }appropriate options, e.g.,: 1:wd(2,a)kernel > } ^ > > Thanks, that did the trick. It boots to BSD now. The only > thing now is, I can't do anything, even as root. I get permission > denied. What's that all about? Do I have to setup what access I have > as root and as a user? Not really... methinks you're trying to do something like execute a directory. What specifically are you trying to do that gets you "permission denied"? > I don't know a thing about Unix or Linux, so I need a lot of help. I > bought what I thought would be a good book, Using Linux, by QUE. It > doesn't have any commands in it, besides ls, from what I can tell. doesn't sound like that good of a book ;-). > Can you send me a list or a faq page with a list of commands? Also, Hmm... I'm sure that someone has a good canned answer for this... spend a few hours at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html... also try the linux documentation project, much of which is very unix-generic (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/). Oh--especially this looks useful: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html > I did a df command and it only showed /usr and a couple of other > directories. It seems I should have more directories or something > with everything I installed. df tells you how much space is on your *partitions*, not directories. a partition happens to get mounted under a particular directory (like /usr), but it has many of its own subdirs. You need to use du if you want more detailed usage information. > and x-windows at least accessible in the directories ?? what are you asking? if x windows is configured you can start it with the startx command. if it's not configured try XF86Setup. if it's not installed then go back to /stand and run sysinstall and add it (it is a "distribution" not a "package"). i just had a few thoughts on this question "permission denied"--a lot of ppl familiar with DOS try stuff like "cd.." -- that won't work, you need the space in unix. it's "cd .."--my dad spent about 45 minutes on that one ;-). also, the current working directory, ".", is not in root's path for security reasons. if you want to execute something in the current directory, you need to do ./something. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message