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[ILUG] Sparc rescue

[ILUG] Sparc rescue

John Madden maddenj at skynet.ie
Thu Mar 3 10:20:10 GMT 2005


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On (03/03/05 00:29), Paul Jakma didst pronounce:
> >Problem is it's failing a fsck on boot (on /var) and can't continue 
> >until a manual fsck is performed on the drive, which requires the 
> >root pass!! So, boot -s etc. won't work in this case, because it'll 
> >still fail the fsck and still ask for the password.
> 
> You were prepared to reinstall with S10, so the existing OS can't be 
> that important, right? So why not just reinstall with NetBSD or 
> Debian Linux? (or do you specifically want Solaris?)
> 
There's nothing important on the machine, and I probably will rebuild it
at some stage. I just kinda got locked onto the idea of finding a way
around this problem.

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Chat ya later,

John.
- --
BOFH excuse #1: clock speed
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