[geeks] reinstalling solaris

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Apr 17 23:55:14 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:52:03AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> so far going quite well, now that I have .01 clue what I'm doing.  Haven't 
> gotten back to forte c++, which is what cause me to just start over again.
> Currently doing patches, then pkg-get, the finally forte c++.

> Hmm, this installing patchs thing seems to be hanging on the line:
> Checking installed patches...
> for an awefully long time without any disk activity.

That takes a while.
> 
> BTW, I let solaris do the default partitioning job on the first disk.  The
> default install didn't touch the second disk, so I didn't have to repartition
> it.  The user home directory automounter still isn't working.  I'll just 
> politely ignore it I think.

Take out the /home line from /etc/auto_master, restart autofs in /etc/rc2.d.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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