[Sunhelp] How do you stop look for domain on boot?

Steffen Grunewald steffen at gfz-potsdam.de
Thu Dec 9 12:13:50 CST 1999


On Thu 1999-12-09 (12:47), Mark Sailer wrote:
> If your machine is now stand alone or no longer needs to be part of a
> NIS domain,
> here is what to do.
> 
> If it is stand alone and you no longer need the network-
>  Boot single user (ok boot -s)
> Supply root passwd
> in /etc  remove hostname.le0 and defaultdomain
> 
> If you no longer need the NIS domain -
> Boot single user (ok boot -s)
> Supply root passwd
> in /etc  remove defaultdomain

or rename /var/yp

> > 
> > I set the device to boot from to "disk" (not net), but I still get this
> > problem.  Stop-A brings me to an ok prompt, but I can't figure out how to
> > bypass the search for the NIS master and get the machine to keep booting.

boot -s

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