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From: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Lost Console Recovery
Keywords: Console
Message-ID: <8771@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 26 Jul 89 17:21:38 GMT
References: <5817@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <5728@obdient.CHI.IL.US>
Reply-To: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <5728@obdient.CHI.IL.US> blair@obdient.CHI.IL.US (Doug Blair) writes:
 >In article <5817@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, peb@PacBell.COM (Pat Bowens) writes:
 >
 >> While working with 386
 >> release 3.0e, I carelessly turned off my console in etc/inittab.  
 >
 >What? No alternate consoles? Login via a dialup. What? No dialups? Can you
 >say "reinstall?"
 
Not necessary. Just boot with the boot floppy, then mount /dev/dsk/0s1
on /mnt, and edit your inittab file. Detailed instructions previously posted
by John Plocher and (slightly different) myself. All is not lost!
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