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From: kimery@wdl1.UUCP (Sam Kimery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: stuck in root
Message-ID: <5650005@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 19:13:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 12 19:13:58 1987
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/ wdl1:comp.os.minix / kpk@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) / 11:38 am  Apr 11, 1987 /

>An earlier posting referred to logging in as a normal user, changing to
>superuser, and changing back to user.  Further control-D's left him stuck
>with the superuser prompt.
>
>The reason:
>    You have unmounted the diskette with the "login" program.  A similar
>behavior is exhibited by deleting "login" from the diskette where it resides,
>and then booting.
 
Well not quite.  Everything except / resides on /dev/hd1.  / itself resides
on the ramdisk.  No floppies involved.




			Sam Kimery
			kimery@ford-wdl1
			sun!wdl1!kimery

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