Quoting <19991104101601.D15937 at wbtsystems.com>
by lbedford at wbtsystems.com:
> Right, like the eejit that I am, I was doing backups of my
> _very_ important clearcase server last night, using ufsdump.
> And I did a test backup, and that worked, so I went for:
> ufsdump 0uf /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 <filesystems>
>> and forgot to put in the tape device... so I now have a screwed up
> root partition. I have a backup of that (it's what I used to test it),
> but because root is screwed, I can't use tcp to access the tape device,
> which is on another machine, and I can't reboot to put the tape drive
> on this machine...
>> so, is there a Solaris 7 CD rescue boot thingy, where I can bypass
> the root partition (I could move the tape drive then)?
You could boot single-user from the CD with 'boot cdrom -s' at the ok
prompt if it's a SPARC.
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