Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:26:19 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: upgrades, partitions, passwords and other light stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970506233402.251A-100000@roost.com>
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Greetings! If this repeats a recent posting, bear with me, I'm not sure it got sent as will become apparent. Got my 2.2.1R CD and upgraded from 2.1.5. The new software is doing well and is nice and stable - good job! The upgrade itself was not the method I wanted though. I wanted to be able to ftp from a second machine that has the CDROM in it, from the drive itself. It runs windowsNT 3.5 (hey it was free, the guy wanted me to buy it and finally gave it to me when I laughed) and I have it connected via some NE2000 cards to the FreeBSD machine. The freebsd and NT machines connect well enough for Netscape on the NT side to browse the freebsd document database with Apache as the server. Ftp also works both ways. What I cannot do is use /stand/sysinstall or the boot floppy (freebsd install) to ftp directly to the CDROM. It will go and get the package index as if you are going to install packages, ports, etc. But gives the message "unable to fetch ..." when the "install" button is clicked. The only way the upgrade worked was to use the /dos partition on the freebsd machine. I ftpd all the dists I needed there and ran the install. I want to eliminate that partition and have only freebsd on that machine. The install info and the documentation suggests I can also use a freebsd file system as my upgrade source. The same machine as the upgrade target? I have two drives in it with plenty of space on the second drive. It is one file system called /usr2 (imaginative, yes?). Can I put all of the dists there and point at it as the install source after repartitioning (with whats best?) and using the boot floppy? Any help with the ftp question would also be welcome as I would like an alternative path. The only real problem I had with the upgrade was that none of my passwords worked after the upgrade!? I had to reinstall *and* reset the root password to log on to the new operating system, then remove and readd all users. the password files seemed to have been preserved by the upgrade but I do not know what I missed to have no password work. Comments? (be nice) OK, I'll shut up now. The team deserves a big bravo for really good work! This is how it is supposed to work. Thanks, John
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