Hi, I'm (re)installing Woody. The steps which involve creating a working root file system (using disks-powerpc/current/powermac/ramdisk.image.gz) work fine.
Now, after I reboot I get this message: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes I'm not entirely sure what it means, but according to previous messages to the list, the following line in (/target)/etc/inittab is the culprit: 1:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/termwrap /usr/sbin/base-config </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 However, the line as such seems fine with me. So I don't know what the problem is. I seem to have to workarounds: 1) Try over, and hope it does work now (after all, I had it working before, but deleted the disk in favour of a different disk partition scheme) 2) Run /usr/sbin/base-config manually. I'm opting for the last, but I can't login! tty2 and tty3 do show a prompt, but I haven't set the pwd for root yet. An option is to manually edit /target/etc/passwd while booting from the ramdisk. However, could someone please tell me what to put in that line? I don't know how the passwd is encrypted (dunno if it is different for shadow files either). Could someone be so kind to set a password of any account to anything, let's say "insecure" and see how this shows in the /etc/passwd file (provided you don't have a shadow file!) Thanks! Freek
