Subject: Re: post-install login trouble
To: Ryan Low <uberfrogus@yahoo.com>
From: Simas Mockevicius <symka@vejas.lt>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2001 16:24:20
>I just installed NetBSD 1.5 on an old Pentium I
>dinosaur from cdrom. Installation completes and
>everything is smooth until I try to log in for the
>first time. At the login prompt, having received the
>root name and password, it thinks for a little bit,
>then puts up another login prompt. Note that it does
>not reject the user/pass, but just spits out another
>prompt. The thing is, I logged in just fine after the
>first time I installed. Much to my regret, however, I
>decided to re-install and change the partitioning
>scheme (just use the whole disk and accept all the
>default values). Now, after many re-install attempts
>with the vain hope that this problem might go away, I
>am beginning to feel frustrated. Any ideas? I would
>really like to log in......
>
>Thanks for the help
>Ryan

Ryan, hi

when I installed NetBSD 1.5 on my 486 :), after all packages transferd to my hard
disk I have got message: Do you want to setup root password" or something like
that, I entered my password and at this i am loging on to system maybe 1000000
time, password is valid :)

Good look..

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It's Symka, and of cource he runs on his feet's, but his server runs... NetBSD
:)