From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 10:00:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28959 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28947 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08594; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:59:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Miracle cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Problems with 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970729090158.0086ae60@central.TanSoft.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Rob Miracle wrote: > I installed 2.2.2 from the FTP site and have had a couple of problems. I > don't think I am doing anything wrong. > > Problem #1. The Install program does not update rc.conf. There are several problems with sysinstall and rc.conf, unfortunately. At least you didn't get the nasty duplication problems that everyone else gets. :-( > Second problem, when I login as root I get a message about a missing > login_class: root. I read about the class stuff in the man pages, but a > fresh install shouldn't require me to go put in files for the base accounts. Extract the src/etc distribution and copy /usr/src/etc/login.conf to /etc/login.conf. This is in ERRATA.TXT on the CD. > Did I do something wrong or is the install for 2.2.2 from ftp.freebsd.org > making oopses? It's making oopsies. Someone skipped the QA step I think.... :-( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo