From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 14:23:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138E9106564A for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:23:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1248FC1C for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwn22 with SMTP id 22so953454wwn.1 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:23:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ou7ab+GYFpH82uPpEMqDx/0qkSgis/vYp7aKkdHTCNA=; b=R7typeVBWI5eOEx1GKtYQN2u0aHkGRWV6bapvQzvOz7VxV3UjvJisofWu4Y7RgyvCs C0Q2kookHuOLiruWB3eWkgq+nzpQu1dfPEmyWC9oh9wpdq4o7ZulZYNtePnW8RN+Qvgf LAUGpVR7wN+Z6yqm9Djz8jp11189FJ/HOMQA4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.208.81 with SMTP id gb17mr16373126wbb.24.1319725407589; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.208.134 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:23:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:23:27 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AnQQET-cA3z3Gy86Ou4FXJ52_iI Message-ID: From: Rick Miller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Install Failure: Unable to create a new /etc/fstab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:23:29 -0000 Just following up...I resolved the issue by copying /etc/* to /stand/ in the mfsroot. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Rick Miller wr= ote: > Hi All, > > I am Installing 8.2-RELEASE via PXE and receive an error stating that > sysinstall was unable to create new /etc/fstab. =A0Everything appears to > function correctly, in that, the system TFTP's the pxeboot and mfsroot > files as needed. =A0However, When I switch to the holographic shell and > poke around a little, I can see that there is no /etc, despite it's > existence in the mfsroot.gz. > > I must be missing something and am hoping that someone might be able > to point in the right direction. > > -- > Take care > Rick Miller > --=20 Take care Rick Miller