From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 15:11:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA16256 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:11:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16217 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA02437; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:10:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Alwan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amnesiac and no user ppp In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970331115736.006e2c80@rma.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Michael Alwan wrote: > No go on all your suggestions. Unfortunately, I ftp'd the 2.2.1 release > directly into my bsd partition, instead of to a dos partition--so I can't > reinstall without hours of downloading. I do have the 2.1.7 binaries on a > dos partition. I wanted 2.2.1 for compatability with the oss soundcard > driver from 4front, but I can't get it to work anyway. You can install from the local filesystem, just select a UFS install and point it at the directory. > Why reinstall? Well, noticed a couple of wierd things. My home directory > (/usr/home/michael) may be corrupted somehow: when I "ls" it the contents > display as one column on the left. Only in this directory: subdirectories > of /michael display correctly. I tried backing up /michael, deleting the > directory and copying back; the same problem EVENTUALLY appears. (Is this > because I'm dumping too much stuff into /michael--xemacs, netscape, big > caches from netscape?). Maybe I should have deleted /home too. ON the ls, you probably have a *long* filename in there which causes ls to reformat the multicolumns to a single column. This happens to me every so often. /michael may not have such a long name. > When I ftp'd 2.2.1, the installation did give me a host name--it was an > internet address--I think it was the nameserver of my ISP, or maybe the > dynamic adddress they assign me. In any case, the problem seem to have > started after I changed this default hostname in sysconfig. Don't worry about this name, it's used by your ISP only. > Unless someone has another suggestion, I'm going to reformat the bsd > partition and reinstall some distribution--maybe download 2.2.1 again. > What fun! Ugly. It may be what you need to flush it to make it work... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major