Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:35:13 -0500 (CDT) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Syquest install Message-ID: <199607231435.JAA27942@astro.acs.uswest.com>
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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.
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