On 9 May 1995, Johnny Mo wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Pls don't flame me.. I'm someone who hasn't touched Un*x OS and doesn't
> know of anyone who could help me (that's around here)...
> 
> I'm a newbie on this...  I have the CD-ROM version (BSDisc) from infomagic
> and I can't seem to be able to find anywhere step by step instructions
> for the full installations of BSD.
> 
> I've gone out and purchased 4.4BSD System Manager's manual and the user's
> reference manual.  I've looked at the books, lots of docs and texts on the
> CD and no where can I find proper installation instructions for a i386
> machine.
> 
> I'm running on a Pentium 90MHz machine with a scsi CD-ROM.
> I was able to extract all the files and copied the kernel over.
> 
> My problem that I'm having now (because I can't find it anywhere in the
> docs) is that when I log in as root, I can't do commands such as ADDUSER
> I also get myname# as a prompt, and when I change the file hosts it gives
> me an error.
> 
	If you run 'man adduser' it tells you its a procedure for adding
	a user, not a program.

	Basically you run vipw & the add in another entry - copy a different
	line & modify the account, uid & home directory.

	    v--uid				v-home directory
     ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh
	^account

	To change the hostname edit the file /etc/myname & name sure the new
	name is in /etc/hosts... If you want the network to work you need to
	have a file /etc/hostname.INTERFACE (ie /etc/hostname.le0) containing
	'inet HOSTNAME' where HOSTNAME is the new hostname you picked.

	I guess there should be an FAQ that covers this - (in proper
	detail unlike I just have :)... but I dont know where it is -
	anybody?

	If not - anybody care to write a man page like 'adduser' which
	covers the 'welcome to your first root prompt' situation? :)

		David


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