[SunHELP] solaris 8 install

[Alex Avriette]

thats a great link.

thanks.

alex
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 02:27 PM, Steve Wingate wrote:

> Every Solaris newbie should park themselves on this url and read 
> ALL the Solaris articles. They're excellent reading and 
> straightforward.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/unix_topics.pl
>
>
> 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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