Captains log; stardate Saturday 17 January 2004 07:04 pm, Lieutenant Erik S. Bartul reported
that.......

> i know its silly.
>
> i installed gentoo on vmware (for those not familair, its a virtual machine,
> and im using very minimal hardware so i would get no support issues).
>
> i did the entire installation guide with seemingly no problems. i synch'd my
> ports ect, everything up until the point when i feel a reboot is nessisary.
> so i "shutdown now", then i get:
>
> init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
>
> what would cause this? i assume something is very wrong. thanks in advance

Whats the point that you feel a reboot is neccisary? Did you complete the install all the way
through the guide to where it TELLS you to reboot? if not then thats likely the issue, as you
didn't actually finish the install........
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Shan Destromp
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Sent: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 @ 19.06.46 EST
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