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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: A large number of newbie questions
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Date: 11 Mar 93 05:17:05 GMT
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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.

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