i got jumpstart running fine but the root password never works..i copyed it from from the shadow file like i was told to but never works once the system comes up. any suggestions? thanks, ness

Ness - I had a similar problem... It was attributed to bad typing and not following syntax closely. I offer working context from my own sysidcfg file. Maybe you can find something useful from it. - Mike # # system_locale=en_US # No spaces at any # time in any line! install_locale=en_US terminal=dtterm timezone=US/Mountain # For Colorado timeserver=localhost name_service=NIS network_interface=hme0 {hostname=client2 # Client name must be identical # in rules, class, and here! ip_address=200.200.200.213 netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=no} # security_policy=none root_password=5Z8SUcVGLu64U # Copy this from # /etc/shadow # name_service=NIS {domain_name=cssd11.com # Watch the matching # of curly braces! name_server=server1(200.200.200.215)}

I think that jumpstart has problems using encrypted passwords that contain special characters. If your encrypted password contains a dot ".", then jumpstart will fail to correctly set it. From the machine that you are copying the password from, just keep redoing root's password until you get an encrypted version in the /etc/system file that has no special characters and use it.