Just installed, and nothing seems to work properly.

[Ethan McTague]

Hello. I have just installed minix3 x86 on an older laptop. Everything seemed to go well during installation, but now that I've rebooted, I am experiencing a number of problems:

• The passwd command seems to be missing, despite the Post-installation documentation instructing me to use it.
• /etc/fstab is entirely empty.
• Attempting to mount anything to /home results in unknown filesystem type 'minix'
• The only device specified by ip link list is lo (my ethernet and wireless devices are missing)

I have a feeling something may have gone wrong during the installation. Should I just attempt to reinstall, or is this some sort of issue with my hardware?

Any help with my problem will be greatly appreciated!

[David van Moolenbroek]

Hello,

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:15:12 PM UTC+1, Ethan McTague wrote:

Attempting to mount anything to /home results in unknown filesystem type 'minix'

The only device specified by ip link list is lo

 
Whatever you installed (or booted into), it isn't MINIX 3.

Regards,
David

[Ethan McTague]

Hm, you're right.
It seems it booted up to my old Arch Linux system (except that the minix installer had overwritten
one of its partitions, so it dropped me into some other shell).
I suppose I'll have to boot from another disc and repartition the system now.

Thank you for your help!