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From: Soren Ragsdale <soren@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Mounting Solaris Drives
Date: 7 Jun 1997 12:09:01 -0700
Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000
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X-Posted-By: soren@206.165.5.108 (soren)
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42578
So I've done a Dumb New Administrator Thing and changed root's shell
(don't do it, kids!) to tcsh and then moved the tcsh binary, resulting in
root being unable to log in. This is on a Solaris system. And the
standard solution, being for me to boot the machine from the CD and fix
the /etc/passwd file, is not currently workable because the Ultrasparc
arrived before I did and the system CDs have been misplaced. So rather
than wait a week for the people at Sun to send us another system disk,
I've taken the drives from the sparc home over the weekend and am
attempting to mount the drives from FreeBSD and do the repairs here.
Is this even possible? I've so far been unable to get mount to do its
thing, and I'm wondering if perhaps solaris has its own special format
that FreeBSD can't deal with.
--
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