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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] How to edit file /etc/rc.local
Date: 16 Nov 1993 06:30:02 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: kbta@nhatrang's message of 15 Nov 93 21:47:00 GMT


In article <CGJz6D.A3H@oakhill.sps.mot.com> kbta@nhatrang (Khanh-Binh
Ta) writes:

   and rebooted, and of course "xdm" does not work yet with my setup,
   the trouble is there was no console, so I'm left without unix. I've
   tried to [...]

Why don't you just type `-s' at the boot prompt to boot in single-user
mode?