From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 23:12:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19920 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA19860 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00514; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:12:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Paul T. Root" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syquest install In-Reply-To: <199607231435.JAA27942@astro.acs.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > 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? That or do it manually (fdisk/newfs/disklabel). Or even better, disconnect the hard disks. > 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? Dunno. Why not log in on the console and give yourself a password? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major