Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:30:16 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@4evermail.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Help! - I'm Locked Out Message-ID: <027a01c1488e$bcd7cde0$6401a8c0@equinox> References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0E9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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Try installing a copy of Windows on the machine, and then installing FreeBSD over that. While it might take awhile, it should work. -- Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:15 PM Subject: Help! - I'm Locked Out > I have been messing with my system and am now apparently locked out. It all > started when I attempted to upgrade my 4.3 system to 4.4 via sysinstall. It > failed in the middle and from there things have just gotten worse. > > As it stands now, I can't log in from the console (no login prompt) and I > can't get in remotely as it appears root can't log in remotely. All my > previous accounts seem to be missing. > > I don't have anything real important and am prepared to erase everything and > start over with a fresh install. I've made the boot floppies for > 4.4-RELEASE and booted the machine but it doesn't seem to recognize my > network card for an FTP install. I only get choices for the parallel and > serial interfaces when configuring the network via sysinstall. Prior to > this incident, my card was ed0 on interrupt 9 and address D0000-D0800. I > can retrieve this from the startup: > > ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::240:5ff:fe66:b255%ed0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x2 > ether 00:40:05:66:b2:55 > > So I have no console access and I can't seem to boot from the floppies and > perform an FTP install. Burning a CD is out of the question for a few > weeks. Any ideas on how I can get this installed? > > Thanks, > > Drew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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