Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:41:43 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fixit.flp NOW Message-ID: <19990322194143.D17547@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990322173253.13214A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com>; from Keith Woodman on Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 05:40:22PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990322173253.13214A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com>
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[ Bad crosspost. BAD! ;-] On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 05:40:22PM -0800, a little birdie told me that Keith Woodman remarked > HELP. In dire need of a way to boot my system for repair. The > last I read, the fixit disk process for 3.0 was broken so I couldn't make > one. Is there a way to get this sytem up and rolling with another fixit > floppy? Could realy use some advise here. Seems that while preparing to > update to -stable, and running mergemaster. I messed up the passwd stuff. > Can't seem to get into the system after a logout. :-( > I'll be accepting laughs and outright gut busters between the hours of 6pm > and 9pm pacific time. And now for my next trick.............. :-) If you used mergemaster to merge the password file over, it should have created root with no password. So can't you just boot single user and handle passwords/etc? --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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