From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 04:30:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA01526 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA01461 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id WAA21727 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:55:41 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00324; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:14:06 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:14:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Master Of Past And Present cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with installation. In-Reply-To: <313E0584.44D0@ksu.ksu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Master Of Past And Present wrote: > I jsut installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my computer. When I finish the > installation. It won't let me do an adduser, or change the passwor dfor > root. I installed the root.flp and all the binaries, manpages, info and > dict directories. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening. It > doesn't give me an error message. It just flat out won't install. I've > tried reinstalling it using different disks. HELP!!! Try it and jump over to the debug screen (ALT-F2) and see if it put any errors there. Was this a completely new system, ie you're not upgrading from a previous install? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major