Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amnesiac and no user ppp Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331150434.2402D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970331115736.006e2c80@rma.edu>
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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
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