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From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@4evermail.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>,
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Subject: Re: Help! - I'm Locked Out
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:30:16 -0400
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Try installing a copy of Windows on the machine, and then installing FreeBSD
over that. While it might take awhile, it should work. -- Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: Help! - I'm Locked Out


> I have been messing with my system and am now apparently locked out.  It
all
> started when I attempted to upgrade my 4.3 system to 4.4 via sysinstall.
It
> failed in the middle and from there things have just gotten worse.
>
> As it stands now, I can't log in from the console (no login prompt) and I
> can't get in remotely as it appears root can't log in remotely.  All my
> previous accounts seem to be missing.
>
> I don't have anything real important and am prepared to erase everything
and
> start over with a fresh install.  I've made the boot floppies for
> 4.4-RELEASE and booted the machine but it doesn't seem to recognize my
> network card for an FTP install.  I only get choices for the parallel and
> serial interfaces when configuring the network via sysinstall.  Prior to
> this incident, my card was ed0 on interrupt 9 and address D0000-D0800.  I
> can retrieve this from the startup:
>
> ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet6 fe80::240:5ff:fe66:b255%ed0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid
0x2
>         ether 00:40:05:66:b2:55
>
> So I have no console access and I can't seem to boot from the floppies and
> perform an FTP install.  Burning a CD is out of the question for a few
> weeks.  Any ideas on how I can get this installed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
>
>
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