[SunHELP] solaris 8 install

[Steve Wingate]

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:03:36 -0800
"Will Yardley" <william+sun at hq.newdream.net> wrote:

> well i am sure i'm missing something really dumb, but the same thing
> keeps happening to me each time i install solaris 8 on my ss5.  after
> renaming a bunch of init scripts, i reboot, and get the following
> errors:
> 
> configuring IPv4 interfaces: le0
> Hostname: bacall
> /sbin/rcS: /dev/null: cannot create
> The /usr/ file system (/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6) is being checked.
> Can't open /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6
> 
> [...warnings about fscking the partition, complaints about not being
> able to create other device nodes, etc]
> 
> it then freezes at:
> 
> /sbin/rcS: /dev/console: cannot open
> resuming system initialization
> 
> i know that's not a lot to go on, but any guesses as to where things are
> going wrong?  i can boot in single user mode and edit files on the root
> partition (or other partitions) if i can figure out what needs to be
> changed....
> 
> in /etc/rcS.d/ (i changed a couple from before):
> K33audit              S33keymap.sh          k36sendmail
> K35volmgt
> K36utmpd              k39lp
> K40cron               S40standardmounts.sh  k39spc
> K40syslog             S42coreadm            k40nscd
> K41rpc                S50devfsadm           k41autofs
> K42inetsvc            S70buildmnttab.sh     k41ldap.client
> K43inet               k07dmi                k52llc2
> README                k07snmpdx             s10initpcmcia
> S15initpcihpc         k10dtlogin            s41cachefs.root
> S30network.sh         k28nfs.server	    s35cacheos.sh 
> S30rootusr.sh         
> 
> i can try to post any other information i have available.
> 
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