ESIX Blues: NO shell error
Brian Chan
Brian.Chan at samba
Fri Dec 21 20:57:00 AEST 1990
[I'm having trouble posting this article. If you have seen this
already, sorry. BC]
I got into big trouble last night while installing an alternate
shell for my newly acquired ESIX 3.2.2 Rev D. [Well, I actually
bought it in September if it means anything.] Stupid me, I forgot
to change the ALTSHELL=YES before I did the damage. Yes, yes, RTMF
before you do anything.
I first used passmgm to change the default shell to csh. That works
fine. After I created the .cshrc file, but for some reasons, it
won't read the resource file. [Don't know the reason. The path
didn'nt change even I ran another csh under it.] I logged out and
s****. It won't let me or root or anybody to log on the system
anymore. It said "No shell".
I then read the ESIX installation and followed the instruction on
"Recovery of Unix system". I mount and umount like it says but it
won't let me copy the kernel on floppy disk to /mnt.
Before I spend another 8 hours installing over again, can anyone
tell me how can I get back to system again?
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Stuttgart, FRG
Hardware: Gateway 2000 w/CDC 150MHD + 16 Megs RAM.
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