Re: emergency action

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my changes? Well, you just do the same thing you would for Solaris, except that

Re: emergency action

1997-01-13 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my changes? For instance, on a solaris machine i

Re: emergency action

1997-01-13 Thread Fundamental
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote: servo For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it servo gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell servo and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box? servo servo From

Re: emergency action

1997-01-13 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On 12 Jan 1996, Guy Maor wrote: This will put it into single user runlevel. No, emergency is not the same as single. emergency does the bare minimum - mounts root ro and launches a shell. single will still run the scripts in /etc/rc.boot, mount all your partitions, start update, turn on

Re: emergency action

1997-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Fundamental wrote: im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my changes? For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot

emergency action

1997-01-12 Thread Fundamental
im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my changes? For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it gets