From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 07:36:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA16599 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco3.uswest.com [206.196.133.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA16584 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com (egate.mnet.uswest.com [151.116.23.138]) by uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04115 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:35:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA17626 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:35:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09473; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:35:45 -0500 Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09464; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:35:30 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA27942; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:35:13 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199607231435.JAA27942@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Syquest install To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:35:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I made a big mistake last night. I decided to try installing FreeBSD on my Syquest drive (sd2), just to see. And so I ran /stand/sysinstall from my running system on sd0. I guess what happened was that it newfs'd the syquest then couldn't mount because / was already mounted. It began installing over what was already there. I lost config files in /etc (sysconfig, hosts, passwd master.passwd, etc), but was able to recover most everything. That will teach me to do backups more often. Anyway, I'm guessing if I want to install on the syquest, I should do it from the boot disk? Is that right. That way, sd0 won't get messed with. Am I right? Oh, after restoring and rebooting, I needed passwords to be able to get logged in thru xdm. I have allowNullPasswd (however it's spelled and capitalized) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources, that didn't get clobbered. Am I missing something? Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com Did you hear about the Polish parachute? --opens on impact.