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From: mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: SCO Xenix stand alone/single user mode???
Message-ID: <1990@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 17:20:50 GMT
Reply-To: mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Lets say my passwd or inittab file or something gets clobbered so that
my system won't come up multiuser. 

How do I bring up Xenix 2.2.1 in some sort of stand alone or single user
mode so that I can do things like:

	o mount file systems.
	o look around.
	o edit files.
	o cpio or tar stuff in.

In this mode will I still be able to use my 9 track cartrige tape drive
to restore things?


which works better for getting specific stuff off (e.g. /u/osas/data/* or
/usr/bin/???), cpio or tar)?  I had some trouble doing this with tar
but it may have been attributed to some other tape trouble that I was 
haveing at the time.  I would think that you could do this with either.
Which is better to use for daily backup/restore functions (cpio or tar)?

Thanks.
-- 
Mitchell Lerner
UUCP:  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!mitchell

"When I fight with my mind, my mind always wins" - Ben Hummel