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From: jgy@cbnewsh.att.com (john.g.young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: booting 3b2's to single user mode: PLEASE HELP!!
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.150507.22097@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 15:05:07 GMT
References: <8413@milton.u.washington.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <8413@milton.u.washington.edu>, joel@milton.u.washington.edu (Joel Reynolds) writes:
> 
> I accidently installed win/3b tcp/ip release 2.1 without
> prior removal of the files from release 1.1.  Now when I
> try to boot the system it crashes due to the conflict created
> by the two sets of tcp/ip software.
> 
> Does anybody know of a method by which I can boot the machine but
> only to single -user mode?  This way I would avoid the problem created
> by the conflicting tcp/ip software as it would not be initialized.
> 

If you are booting /etc/system and it crashes before the
message "Generating a new /unix" comes out you can probably
just boot /unix to get your old O.S.

If this fails boot on /boot/KERNEL and be ready to specify your system
configuration!