Rchard & Brian, Thanks a lot you guys. The FC2 home and Musiclib partitions are now mounting, user accounts are created, passwords and groups are more or less in place and everyone can at least log in and see file permissions with the correct owners and groups.
I'm about 110 of 179 packages through emerging Gnome so that we can make sure their basic environments are retained through the conversion. Hopefully in another hour or two we'll have Gnome up and running. I appreciate your help on this. Now I have to figure out Gentoo's ndiswrapper setup and configuration. In typical Gentoo style I bet it makes lots of sense once I get a bit deeper. At least I know the drivers and hardware work since it's working today under FC2. Looking forward to recording some TV with this box. Thanks, Mark On 4/16/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > >directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run > >passwd for each user and hopefully folks could log in. Or is there > >more to creating a new user account? > > > > > > > > That should work ok. Just run 'pwconv' and 'grpconv' after you get done > editing, so that the /etc/shadow and /etc/grpshadow are updated > correctly. These are the 'secure' password files. You'll want to do > that after editing but before running passwd. > > -Richard > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
