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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: A large number of newbie questions Message-ID: <1nmi0hINNgc@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 11 Mar 93 05:17:05 GMT References: <f0nca0L@quack.kfu.com> Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <f0nca0L@quack.kfu.com> mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: > > At this point, we've got the bin01 distribution extracted properly. > Do we have enough in place to make a new kernel (/386bsd, I presume) > [...] You need to install srcdist (src01.*) first. > We tried the man pages, but no luck: If you add an entry to > /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, how do you update /etc/*.db so > that the new passwd entry works? pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd > I am therefore inclined to run the system diskless. Is this possible? This is currently not possible. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!