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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!news.io.com!fnord!news From: mparson@grumblesmurf.io.com (Michael Parson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd1.2 amiga Date: 16 Jan 1997 08:47:31 -0600 Organization: Illuminati Online Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5blf23$v84@grumblesmurf.io.com> References: <32DE2508.4865@dimail.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: grumblesmurf.io.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:14861 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5175 In article <32DE2508.4865@dimail.epfl.ch>, Fabien Wernly <fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch> wrote: >Hi! > >I can't boot in multi-user, my spwd.db (sp) is 'not of the appropriate >format'. > >And vipw doesn't work :( > >it says vi/ex not found or something. While in single-usermode: # fsck -p Never mount an unchecked partition..... # mount -a -t nonfs This will remount all of your local partitions (if you don't have any nfs mounts in /etc/fstab, then you don't need the -t nonfs option). Now you should be able to run vipw. -- Michael Parson // Illuminati Online E-mail: mparson@io.com \X/ Fnord! DNRC