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by **Doug Kayfis** » Fri, 25 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Hi,

It seems that I have been unfortunate enough to have the power go out in
my building while I was applying a patch.I have looked at the patch on
another machine (103631-09) and think I can fix it up -but- how the heck
do I boot off of the cdrom and mount the hard drive to something. I've
done similar to other flavors of unix, buy the way I am using SolarisX86
2.5.1) but for some reason seem to be missing something. I put in the
floppy, pick the cd-rom to boot from and then it seems to want to go
straight into an install. Would sure appreciate a little advise.

by **Cameron Simpso** » Sat, 26 Jul 1997 04:00:00

| It seems that I have been unfortunate enough to have the power go out in
| my building while I was applying a patch.I have looked at the patch on
| another machine (103631-09) and think I can fix it up -but- how the heck
| do I boot off of the cdrom and mount the hard drive to something. I've
| done similar to other flavors of unix, buy the way I am using SolarisX86
| 2.5.1) but for some reason seem to be missing something. I put in the
| floppy, pick the cd-rom to boot from and then it seems to want to go
| straight into an install. Would sure appreciate a little advise.

1: I seem to recall there's a way to get to a shell from the install before
it starts doing anything.
2: Try booting single-user (i.e. "-s" before or after "cdrom" in "boot cdrom").
Urr, not sure how you say this on an Intel platform.

Don't give up, it can definitiely be done.

Cheers,

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by **Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engine** » Sat, 26 Jul 1997 04:00:00

>Hi,
>It seems that I have been unfortunate enough to have the power go out in
>my building while I was applying a patch.I have looked at the patch on
>another machine (103631-09) and think I can fix it up -but- how the heck
>do I boot off of the cdrom and mount the hard drive to something. I've
>done similar to other flavors of unix, buy the way I am using SolarisX86
>2.5.1) but for some reason seem to be missing something. I put in the
>floppy, pick the cd-rom to boot from and then it seems to want to go
>straight into an install. Would sure appreciate a little advise.

Try "boot cdrom -s" or if you go to install, wait until you get at the
point where a graphical install starts.

At that point, pop up a root shell.

Casper
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