[ILUG] Sparc rescue

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Thu Mar 3 00:29:59 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, John Madden wrote:

> Problem is it's failing a fsck on boot (on /var) and can't continue 
> until a manual fsck is performed on the drive, which requires the 
> root pass!! So, boot -s etc. won't work in this case, because it'll 
> still fail the fsck and still ask for the password.

You were prepared to reinstall with S10, so the existing OS can't be 
that important, right? So why not just reinstall with NetBSD or 
Debian Linux? (or do you specifically want Solaris?)

regards,
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