From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 22 17:42:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0A4152F3; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA18265; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:41:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:41:43 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Keith Woodman Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fixit.flp NOW Message-ID: <19990322194143.D17547@futuresouth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Woodman on Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 05:40:22PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ 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