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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Stupidity..
Message-ID: <194.2433E29E@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 31 Mar 89 20:39:26 GMT
Organization: A neat desk is a sign of a crazy person.
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In article <433@sumax.UUCP>, woodman@sumax.UUCP (David Woodman) writes:

 >  When minix asks you to insert the /usr disk,
 >  I have found the killing the script will get you to root.
 >  On the PC/AT, the DEL key is what you want.
 >  On minix 1.3 you will not be able to use an editor
 >  until you set your TERM variable to minix.

Also, if you don't mount /usr (put in the /user disk instead, or something),    
and you haven't put login in /bin, MINIX will be unable to exec    
/usr/bin/login, and will drop into root.  I found this out by accident when I    
had to reformat my hard disk (which I was using for /usr), and MINIX tried    
(unsuccessfully) to mount /dev/hd2 as /usr (because it wasn't a MINIX    
filesystem...).

   
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